Those works build on the "quest" theme seen in such works as Simbi and the Satyr of the Dark Jungle, while his major work is based on a Yoruba tale about a man who follows a bartender into Deads Town.  
While working as a blacksmith, he read Daniel Fagunwa's Forest of a Thousand Demons, which inspired him to write a novel that was published in Britain after it was glowingly reviewed by Dylan Thomas.  He was criticized in his home country for saying seemingly pro-colonialist things, such as "the wild people of the jungles are as senseless as donkeys," in The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town.  His second novel tells the story of a child who tries to return to his family after being lost in the "Bush of Ghosts," while he adapted folk beliefs in The Brave African Huntress.  Those works build on the "quest" theme seen in such works as Simbi and the Satyr of the Dark Jungle, while his major work is based on a Yoruba tale about a man who follows a bartender into Deads Town.  FTP, name this author of a 1952 novel about The Palm-Wine Drunkard.
While working as a blacksmith, he read Daniel Fagunwa's Forest of a Thousand Demons, which inspired him to write a novel that was published in Britain after it was glowingly reviewed by Dylan Thomas.  
Amos Tutuola