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By Amos Tutuola
"...brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching ...written in English by means of a West African...Nothing is simply too prodigious or too trivial to place down during this tall, devilish story". (Dylan Thomas within the "Observer").
Amos Tutuola (20 June 1920 – eight June 1997) used to be a Nigerian author well-known for his books established partly on Yoruba folk-tales. regardless of his brief formal schooling, Tutuola wrote his novels in English. His writing's grammar usually is predicated extra on Yoruba orality than on general English.
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Why? Because the mother’s love [is considered] more genuine than the love of one’s spouse. His Enslavement Remembered 35 mother won’t poison him; he can completely trust her [literally: he can receive every bit of yam and every gulp of water from her hand], but [this is not true] for his wife. When the Asantes flooded the land of the Ewes in 1869, the inhabitants of the flatlands fled to the nearby mountains. These reach an altitude of 2–3000 feet and are entirely covered with forest in such a way that one cannot pass through them in places.
1 Captured as a child, Kuku related to Quist memories of his enslavement, his relocation to Asante, where he had two different masters, and his eventual escape and return to his hometown of Petewu some sixteen years later. Kuku’s experience was far from unique, however. 2 This group included the Basel missionaries Ramseyer and Kühne as well as the French trader M. 3 Kuku’s narrative—while of little literary value—is, however, quite unusual. It is one of the few life histories recorded in West Africa that documents the experiences of someone who was enslaved but not exported to the Americas.
The next day she ground pepper and ordered him to come to her so she could put it in his nose as punishment for his actions the previous day. Kuku refused to budge, however, and instead slipped some cotton up his nose to blunt the effect of the pepper. Remembered most fondly was the fact that after his mother inserted the pepper with no effect and then discovered his ruse, instead of raging at him she only expressed exasperated amusement at his cleverness. This is only one of several stories about life with his relatives that he shared with his amanuensis.