Ake: The Years of Childhood: by WOLE SOYINKA
Price: N2500
Product Code: 1460453447
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Number of Pages: 240
Binding: Paper Back
Publisher: BOOKCRAFT
ISSN: 9789788457114
Summary: 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 beautiful and laced with humor and the sheer delight of a child's-eye view. A classic of African autobiography, Ak� is also a transcendantly timeless portrait of the mysteries of childhood.