Some of the papers presented at the conference were: 'The Furry-Bearded Being and the Beardless Butcher on a Rock Promontory: Notes on Soyinka's Breed of Hybrid Humanity in Alapata Apata' by Professor Adeoti; 'The Famished' Fourth Stage': The Nigerian Road and the Aesthetics of Wole Soyinka's Yoruba Tragedy' by Bisi Adigun; 'Fragmentation as Form in Amos Tutuola's The
Palmwine Drinkard' by Ainehi Edoro; and 'Of State, Stranger, and Progress: A Soyinka resque Reading of Ryan Coogler's Black Panther' by Tolulope Akinwole, a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
"We are told not to drink
palmwine, but this palm wine is medicine to us.
Amos Tutuola was another "African writer" who was despised by the English Lit establishment, the derision--and patronising--inflected on him by those better "educated" than him could squelch the creative impulse, The
Palmwine Drinkard would have been his last offering at the literary shrine.
The GENACIS questionnaire captures both "Western-style" alcohol beverages and local beverages (e.g., cider,
palmwine, Kwete, and toddy).
In spite of this initial efforts, Nigerian literature in English would only gain serious international recognition upon the publication of Amos Tutuola's
Palmwine Drinkard in 1952.
Raphia
palmwine is the sap of a monocarp crop and is widely grown along the cost of west and central Africa (Ekanem, 1959, Bassier, 1968),
palmwine is an important socio-economic, nutrition and health item of many Nigerians especially the low-income rural dwellers.
Another marriage, ending after the
palmwine was spilled and not spilled.
The protagonists in novels like Amos Tutuola's The
Palmwine Drinkerd, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God are men.
Apart from the main Enyigba lode, others are Ameri, Ameka, Ikwo,
Palmwine, Nine pence and Portuguese lodes [3].
I poured
palmwine and gave [it to] Kofi)--although this is not transparent from Heine and Reh's hierarchical structure in (26a).
The final section of Euba's essay presents musical-textual analyses of "The
Palmwine Drinkard" by Ogunmola in the neo-African church style; "Oba Ko So" by Duro Ladipo, a "native air opera"; and Euba's folk opera, "Obaluaye."