Amos Tutuola's books "The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952)" and "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1954)" (https://time.com/collection/100-best-fantasy-books/5898437/my-life-in-the-bush-of-ghosts/) are included in the recently announced Time Magazine's "100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time" set in chronological order starting with "Arabian Nights" in the 9th Century.
Also included in the list are books by four other writers of Nigerian ancestry/heritage:
Nnedi Okorafor's "Who Fears Death (2010)" (https://time.com/collection/100-best-fantasy-books/5898490/who-fears-death/) and "Akata Witch (2011)" (https://time.com/collection/100-best-fantasy-books/5898517/akata-witch/)
"Beasts Made of Night (2017)" (https://time.com/collection/100-best-fantasy-books/5898520/beasts-made-of-night/) by Tochi Onyebuchi
"Children of Blood and Bone (2018)" (https://time.com/collection/100-best-fantasy-books/5898522/children-of-blood-and-bone/) and "Children of Virtue and Vengeance (2019)" (https://time.com/collection/100-best-fantasy-books/5898530/children-of-virtue-and-vengeance/) by Tomi Adeyemi
And finally, "Pet (2019)" (https://time.com/collection/100-best-fantasy-books/5898533/pet/) by Akwaeke Emezi.
Conspicuously missing from the list are the works of the late D.O. Fagunwa (1903-1963), Nigeria's legendary pioneer of the Fantasy genre. One can only speculate that perhaps the fact that his iconic books were primarily written in an indigenous African language, Yoruba precluded them from consideration, notwithstanding that at least one of them "Ogboju Ode ninu Igbo Irunmale (1938)" was translated into English as "Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga" in 1982 by Nigeria's Nobel Literature Laureate, Wole Soyinka.
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