Fagunwa, D. O

LC control no.	n 83207295
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PL8824.F27
Personal name heading	Fagunwa, D. O. *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Fagunwa, Daniel O. Fagunwa, Daniel Orowole Fagunwa, Daniel Orowole Olorunfẹmi
Associated country	Nigeria
Birth date	1903
Death date	1963-12-07
Affiliation	St. Andrew's College, Oyo
Profession or occupation	Authors Novelists Teachers Religious educators
Found in	His Forest of a thousand daemons, c1983: CIP t.p. (D.O. Fagunwa) flap of book jacket (Daniel Orowole Fagunwa, b. Nigeria 1903, d. 12/7/63) LC data base, 8-9-83 (hdg.: Fagunwa, D.O.) Good governance in Nigeria society, 2018: page 301 (Fagunwa (b. 1903, d. 1963); prolific Yoruba writer; he was a Christian philosopher with a background as an evangelist-teacher from St. Andrew's College Oyo) page 311 (Fagunwa, D. O., in bibliographic citations) Wikipedia, March 24, 2019 (Daniel O. Fagunwa; Chief Daniel Orowole Olorunfẹmi Fagunwa MBD, popularly known as D. O. Fagunwa; Nigerian Yoruba author who pioneered the Yoruba-language novel; born in Oke-Igbo, Ondo State; an Oloye of the Yoruba people; his Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmalẹ̀ (1938) is considered the first novel written in Yoruba and one of the first written in any African language; translated by Wole Soyinka in 1968 as The Forest of a Thousand Demons; first Nigerian writer to employ folk philosophy in telling his stories)
Associated language	yor