Fagunwa wrote his first novel in the bush

Every town or community has its shining stars, that would etch the name of the community or town in the heart of the people - Awolowo’s Ikene, Samuel Ladoke Akintola’s Ogbomoso, Tafawa Balewa’s Bauchi, Jonathan’s Otuoke and William Shakespare’s stratford - upon Avon, United Kingdom and Fagunwa’s Okeigbo. Daniel Orowole, later (Olorunfemi) Fagunwa, was born to a family of Christian pioneers in Okeigbo, in present day Ondo State, in 1903, Aderinsoye Ologbenla, an Ooni elect who had reigned in Ile-Ife for eight years and continued in this capacity until his death in 1893, was a scion of the Giesi ruling house, Ile-Ife.

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