Bakare Gbadamosi (born 1930) is a Yoruba poet, anthropologist and short story writer from Nigeria.
[1] 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.
[2] He participated in Duro Ladipo's theatre group in Osogbo.