The Forest of a Thousand Daemons
work by Fagunwa
Also known as: “Ogboju Ode Ninu Igbo Irunmale”
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discussed in biography
- In D.O. Fagunwa
…Ode Ninu Igbo Irunmale (1938; The Forest of a Thousand Daemons), was the first full-length novel published in the Yoruba language. His second novel, Igbo Olodumare (“The Forest of God”), was published in 1949. He also wrote Ireke Onibudo (1949; “The Sugarcane of the Guardian”), Irinkerindo Ninu Igbo Elegbeje (1954;…
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place in African literature
- In African literature: Yoruba
…ode ninu igbo irunmale (1938; The Forest of a Thousand Daemons), which contains fantasy and realistic images along with religious didacticism and Bunyanesque allegory, all placed within a frame story that echoes that of The Thousand and One Nights. The novel very effectively combines the literary and oral forces at…
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