Bakare Gbadamosi
Bakare Gbadamosi is a Yoruba poet, anthropologist and short story writer from Nigeria.
Life
Born in Osogbo, Hammed Gbadamosi wrote his own Yoruba poetry and short stories in the early 1960s. However, he is best known for collecting and translating Yoruba folk tales and traditional poetry in collaboration with Ulli Beier. Much of Gbadamosi's work was published by Mbari, a club founded by Beier in Ibadan. In the late 1960s Gbadamosi was working as an ethnographer for the Nigerian Museum in Lagos, having previously worked "as a letter writer, stage magician and actor". He participated in Duro Ladipo's theatre group in Osogbo. According to one source, Gbadamosi later became known as Demola Onibonokuta.
Works
In Yoruba
Oriki, Ibadan: Mbari Publications, 1961. Ọrọ pẹlu idi rẹ, Oshogbo: Mbari Mbayo Publications, 1965.
In English
Yoruba Poetry: traditional Yoruba poems. Ibadan: Ministry of Education, 1959. Special publication of Black Orpheus. With silkscreen prints and vignettes by Susanne Wenger.The Moon Cannot Fight: Yoruba children's poems, Ibadan: Mbari Publications, . Illustrations by Georgina Betts.Ijala: animal songs by Yoruba hunters. Port Moresby, 1967.Not Even God Is Ripe Enough: Yoruba stories, London & Ibadan: Heinemann Educational, 1968. African Writers Series 48.