DID U KNOW?! #OlawaleABRAHAM Daniel Olorunfẹmi Fagunwa, MBE (1903 – 9 December 1963), popularly known as D. O. Fagunwa, was a (yoruba) Nigerian author who pioneered Yoruba-languagenovels. In 1938, entering a literary contest of the Nigerian education ministry, Fagunwa wrote Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmalẹ̀, widely considered the first novel written in the Yoruba language and one of the first to be written in any African language.
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