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Old people were saying that the whole people who had died in this world, did not go to heaven directly, but they were living in one place somewhere in this world. So that I said I would find out where my palm-wine tapster who had died was.

— Amos Tutuola The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952)

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Are not thousands of these heroes still roaming about Lagos and the Provinces in search of the wherewithals of life?

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By and by, this lady followed the Skull to his house, and the house was a hole in the ground.

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ZURRJIR’ which means a son who would change himself into another thing very soon.

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