D.O. Fagunwa

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D.O. Fagunwa


Born
Oke-Igbo, Nigeria
Died
December 09, 1963

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Daniel Olorunfẹmi Fagunwa MBE (1903 - 1963), popularly known as D.O. Fagunwa, was a Nigerian author who pioneered the Yoruba-language novel. He was born in Oke-Igbo, Ondo State. An Oloye of the Yoruba people, Fagunwa studied at St. Luke's School, Oke-Igbo, and St. Andrew's College, Oyo, before becoming a teacher himself.

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Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀

4.11 avg rating — 881 ratings — published 1938 — 11 editions
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Ìrìnkèrindò Nínú Igbó Elégbèje

4.21 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 1940 — 2 editions
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Ìrèké-Oníbùdó

4.26 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1949
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The Forest of God

4.34 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1946 — 2 editions
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Àdììtú Olódùmarè

4.33 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1963
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400 İlah Ormanı

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“ELÉYÌÍ NI ÀÀFIN ÀRÒGÌDÌGBÀ TÍ Í SE OLÓRÍ ẸJA INÚ OMI, ỌDÚN ÀRỌ̀GÌDÌGBÀ SÚNMÓ ETÍLÉ KÍ ÀWỌN EBỌRA ÌSÀLÈ IBÚ OMI ÒKUN LỌ MÁA WÁ ÀWỌN ỌMỌ ÈNÌYÀN WÁ KÍ WÓN FI SE ÀRÍYÁ ỌDÚN ỌBA'.”
D.O. Fagunwa, Ìrèké-Oníbùdó

“Arogidigba ni eyini. Ko tile jo eja rara, ó dabi
omobinrin ó sì di irun ori rẹ̀ winnikin ó da asọ àrán tí àwò rẹ̀ dàbí aṣo aláró tí wón sèsè rẹ bora, wón sì fi àrán pupa bo ẹ̀gbé ogiri léyìn rẹ̀, àtègùn kéékèèkéé kan báyìí ni wón fi òkúta se láti ìsàlẹ̀ lọ dé òkè ibi tí Àrògidigbà wà, gbogbo àyíká ibẹ̀ sì ní ẹwà gidigidi.
"Nígbà tí ó rí wa ó dide, igbà tí ó sì dide yìí ni mo tóó wáá rí i pé irù wà ní idi rè bii ti ẹja.”
D.O. Fagunwa, Ìrèké-Oníbùdó

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