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Ake The Years of Childhood

Paperback • 1989 • English

Ake The Years of Childhood

By Wole Soyinka

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About the book

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 evocat...Show more

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ISBN

9780679725404

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published year

1989

Language

English

Original title

Ake The Years of Childhood

Format

Paperback

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