Author: Soyinka, Wole

Ake: The Years of Childhood

By: Soyinka, Wole

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Vintage : October 1989

Seller ID: 462333

ISBN-13: 9780679725404

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

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