Amos Tutuola
Amos Tutuola was born in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria on June 20th, 1920 and is the Novelist. At the age of 76, Amos Tutuola biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Amos Tutuola (20 June 1920 – 8 June 1997), a Nigerian writer who wrote books based in part on Yoruba folk tales, was Amos Tutuola (20 June 1920 – 8 June 1997).
Early history
Amos Olatubola Odegbami was born in Wasinmi, a village just a few miles outside of Abeokuta, Nigeria, where his parents, Charles Tutuola Odegbami and Esther Aina Odegbami, both Yoruba Christian cocoa farmers, lived. Wasinmi was a small farming village established between the years 1845 and 1880 by constituents of the Egba subethnic group from Abeokuta. Tutuola's father and grandfather belonged to this subethnic group.
Amos was his father's youngest brother; his mother was his father's third wife. Chief Odegbami, Edgbaland's patriarch, and a traditional worshipper of the Yoruba faith, he was his grandfather, Odafin of Egbaland (c. 1842-1936). His title, "odafin" (literally "the establisher of rules) or "lawgiver" in Yoruba, implied that he was in charge of the traditional government of Egbaland and that he was one of the Ogboni's Iwarefa.
When Amos was seven years old, he became a servant for F. O. Monu, an Igbo man, who was sent by the Salvation Army primary school in lieu of compensation. He attended the Anglican Central School in Abeokuta at the age of 12. His brief education was limited to six years (from 1934 to 1939). Most members of the chief's family's family decided to go back to Europe and use the name Odegbami as their last name after his grandfather's death in 1936. However, several other family members, including Amos, decided to use Tutuola instead, rather than their father's name. Tutuola's father died in 1939 after leaving school to study as a blacksmith, a profession he pursued from 1942 to 1945 for the Royal Air Force in Nigeria during WWII. He later attempted a variety of other occupations, including baking bread and acting as a messenger for the Nigerian Department of Labour. Tutuola wrote his first full-length book, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, in 1946. He married Victoria Alake, with whom he had four sons and four children in 1947; he would later marry three other women. He is the uncle of Nigerian footballers Segun Odegbami and Wole Odegbami.