Feather Woman of the Jungle

Amos Tutuola

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571311354
• Year: 2014

In Feather Woman of the Jungle, the people of a Yoruba village gather on ten memorable nights to hear the stories and wisdom of their chief. They learn of his adventures, among them his encounter with the Jungle Witch and her ostrich, his visit to the town of the water people and his imprisonment by the Goddess of Diamonds. Each night the people return, eager to discover if there is a happy ending.

Amos Tutuola was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1920. His first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, was acquired by T. S. Eliot and published by Faber in 1952.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• The Biography of my Town in Brief
• Feather Woman of the Jungle
• The Night Entertainments
• The Witch of the Jungle
• I Was Turned into the Image for Two Years by the Witch of the Jungle
• The Treacherous Queen and the King in the Bush of Quietness
• I was Caught by the Savage Men
• From the Town of Famine to the Town of the Water People
• The Goddess of the Diamonds on the Mountain
• The Day of Separation from My Wife
• The Foot Marks of the First White Men who had travelled from Heaven to the World were seen on the Rock in Ife Town. And we visited the Wells from which the Sun and Moon are rising into the Sky and we met the God of Thunder and his Wife in Ede Town
• The Hairy Giant and the Hairy Giantess
• On the Way to My Village
• About the Author
• By the Same Author
• Copyright