Taban Lo Liyong defended this author's (*) "ungrammatical" style in his most famous book, where the narrator meets such characters as the swindler "Give and Take," the bodiless skull "the Complete Gentleman," and Death, who tries to kill him in a bed made of bones.
A character created by this author meets a "television-handed ghostess" and is turned into a cow after being separated from his brother by slavers. The theft of some buried money by Osanyin leads to several of this author's characters later suffering from "inherited poverty." A character created by this man marries a woman who gives birth to an insatiable child from her thumb; later, that child is left with Drum, Dance, and Song. Taban Lo Liyong defended this author's (*) "ungrammatical" style in his most famous book, where the narrator meets such characters as the swindler "Give and Take," the bodiless skull "the Complete Gentleman," and Death, who tries to kill him in a bed made of bones. This author of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts wrote about an alcoholic's quest to bring his tapster back from Deads' Town. For 10 points, name this Nigerian writer of The Palm-Wine Drinkard.
A character created by this author meets a "television-handed ghostess" and is turned into a cow after being separated from his brother by slavers.
Amos Tutuola