service to open, he went for a walk along the riverside and slipped when a bit of earth broke under his foot. When he fell, a nearby canoe turned over onto him and pinned him under the water, drowning him. His body was recovered two days after the accident and was brought to Ibadan, and then onward to his hometown, Òkè-Igbó. Burial services were held for him in St.Luke's Anglican Church and he is buried in the cemetery there. Legacy Chief Fagunwa was created an Oloye of the Yorùbá people prior to his demise in 1963. Fagunwa Memorial High School and Fagunwa Grammar School in Oke-Igbo, Nigeria, are named for Fagunwa. His daughter, Yejide Ogundipe, serves as a council chairperson for Ile Oluji/Okeigbo. Fagunwa day (formerly known as Fagunwa night) is an annual event aimed at reading and promoting his five books. Fagunwa day was initiated in his honour by the Society of Young Nigerian Writers in conjunction with Fagunwa Literary Society and Egbe Odo Onkowe Ede Yorùbá. Works Novels Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀ (CMS Bookshop Lagos, 1938) Igbó Olódùmarè (Edinburgh: Nelson, 1949) Ìrèké Oníbùdó (Edinburgh: Nelson, 1949) Ìrìnkèrindó nínú Igbó Elégbèje (Edinburgh:Nelson, 1954) Àdììtú Olódùmarè (Edinburgh: Nelson, 1961) Other Publications Ìrìnàjò, Apa Kiní & Apa Kejí (London: Oxford University Press, 1949) | Fágúnwà's account of his travels in Britain Táiwò ati Kẹ́hìndé, co-authored with L.J Lewis (London: Oxford University Press, 1949) | Primary School Readers Àlàyé fún olùkọ́ nípa lílò Ìwé "Táiwò ati Kẹ́hìndé", co-authored with L.J Lewis (London: Oxford University Press, 1949) | Teachers' Manual Ìtàn Olóyin (London: Oxford University Press, 1954) | An edited collection of folktales. Òjó Aṣọ̀tán, co-authored with G.L. Lasebikan, published posthumously (London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd., 1964) | Short story Articles "Writing a Novel", Teachers' Monthly, vol.6, no.9, October 1960, p.12 "Going Overseas", Teachers' Monthly, vol.7, no.4, April 1961, p.14 Translations of Fágúnwà's Work Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀ The Forest of a Thousand Daemons by Wole Soyinka (London: Nelson, 1968) | English La Foresta Dei Mille Demoni by Mario Biondi (Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1985) | Italian La Forêt aux Mille Démons by Louis Camara (NENA, 2015) | French 400 İlah Ormanı by Bir Avcının Öyküsü (Altıkırkbeş Yayınları, 2016) | Turkish Igbó Olódùmarè The Forest of God by Gabriel A. Àjàdí (Ibadan: Agbo Areo Publishers, 1994 {1984}) | English In the Forest of Olodumare by Wole Soyinka (London: Nelson, Ibadan: Evans Brothers