What Would Tutuola Do?
Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Iduma, Emmanuel
Date published
2018
Abstract
Amos Tutuola (1920–1997) was a self-taught writer who began his career by recording Yoruba folktales and rewriting them in Nigerian English. This essay reflects on Tutuola’s origins and legacy, the significance of stories in Nigerian modernism, and the value of oral history – with all its indeterminacies – as a means of negotiating the colonial past.
Journal title
Tate Papers
Issue
30
Publisher
Tate
Place of publication
UK
ISSN
1753-9854
Rights statement
In Copyright
Collection