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Ake: The Years of Childhood

Ake: The Years of Childhood

Soyinka, Wole

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

Biographies GeneralLiterary FiguresAfrican History

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0679725407
ISBN13: 9780679725404
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Oct 23 1989
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

A dazzling memoir of an African childhood from Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, playwright, and poet Wole Soyinka.

Aké The Years of Childhood gives us the story of Soyinka's boyhood before and during World War II in a Yoruba village in western Nigeria called Aké. A relentlessly curious child who loved books and getting into trouble, Soyinka grew up on a parsonage compound, raised by Christian parents and by a grandfather who introduced him to Yoruba spiritual traditions. His vivid evocation of the colorful sights, sounds, and aromas of the world that shaped him is both lyrically beautiful and laced with humor and the sheer delight of a child's-eye view. A classic of African autobiography, Aké is also a transcendantly timeless portrait of the mysteries of childhood.

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