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About D. O. Fagunwa
D. O. Fágúnwà, one of the most well-known figures of the pioneering generation of African writers, wrote mostly in Yoruba. He was born in Òkè-Igbó, Ondo State, Nigeria, to Christian convert parents.
Fágúnwà was a product of the missionary-inflected social and education system put in place, in the main, by Africans Christians, originally under the direction of Samuel Ajayi Crowther, and designed to train native agency to move Africa to modernity.
His first novel, entitled Ògbójú Ọdẹ Nínú Igbó Irúnmalè (The Forest of a Thousand Daemons, trans. Wole Soyinka), was published by the Church Missionary Society in 1937. Others soon followed including, Igbó Olódùmarè (The Forest of Olodumare, trans.
Wole Soyinka), Ìrìnkèrindò Nínú Igbó Elégbèje (Expedition to the Mount of Thought, trans.
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Dapo Adeniyi), Ìrèké Oníbùdó, and Àdììtú Olódùmarè (The Mysteries of God, trans. Olu Obafemi). Although Fágúnwà is most celebrated for his novels, he was also a