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