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I was a palm-wine drinkard since I was a boy of ten years of age. I had no other work more than to drink palm-wine in my life.

— 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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The expression of the life-force which forms one’s personality, and which remains even in the deads after they have become non-living.

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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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The brave new world that they had fought for had very easily faded into a rotten world of unemployment and frustration.

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