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The palm-wine drinkard and his dead palm-wine tapster in the Dead's Town by Amos Tutuola

balletbookworm's review

4.0

An intriguing short novel created by Tutuola to keep young people in Nigeria interested in the Yoruba culture. But he also mixed in elements from mid-twentieth century colonialism like photography and British pounds/shillings/pence - it makes the tale seem much closer to an oral tradition that absorbs changes in the culture rather than a rigid piece of writing. It was also interesting to think about the structure of each adventure and compare with [b:Afro-Cuban Tales|223538|Afro-Cuban Tales|Lydia Cabrera|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328819017s/223538.jpg|216491], which use some Yoruba culture in the stories.