Bakare Gbadamosi

Bakare Gbadamosi (born 1930) is a Yoruba poet, anthropologist and short story writer from Nigeria. 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. (Poems.) Ọrọ pẹlu idi rẹ, Oshogbo: Mbari Mbayo Publications, 1965. (Stories.)

In English (coll. and tr. with Ulli Beier) Yoruba Poetry: traditional Yoruba poems. Ibadan: Ministry of Education, 1959. Special publication of Black Orpheus. With silkscreen prints and vignettes by Susanne Wenger. (coll. and tr. with Ulli Beier) The Moon Cannot Fight: Yoruba children's poems, Ibadan: Mbari Publications, [1960s?]. Illustrations by Georgina Betts. (coll. and tr. with Ulli Beier) Ijala: animal songs by Yoruba hunters. Port Moresby, 1967. (coll. and tr. with Ulli Beier) Not Even God Is Ripe Enough: Yoruba stories, London & Ibadan: Heinemann Educational, 1968. African Writers Series 48.