Aké: The Years of Childhood
A Autobiography, Nonfiction, Literature book. Nobel Prize winning author Wole Soyinka's autobiography is truly not an easy read. His...
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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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 230 pages
- ISBN: 9780679725404 / 679725407
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Delightful little vignettes of Soyinka's childhood, ages 3 to 12 or so, growing up the headmaster's son in rural Nigeria around WWII. Soyinka's narration gets right inside his childish mind, and readers are left to interpret events through those eyes and whatever context we can come up with. This works most of the time but sometimes... The autobiography of the 1986 Nobel prize winner from about three or four to eleven. I don't generally like stories told from the perspective of young children, but this book was incredible; since it's nonfiction it's not required to be tragic, but it's not all nostalgia either; it is just fun to read, Soyinka comes across a bright,... Nobel Prize winning author Wole Soyinka's autobiography is truly not an easy read. His dense writing requires the reader's constant attention, but the attentive reader will be rewarded with a beautiful, rich tale of this man's story of his childhood as he chronicles his adventures through and perceptions of his world in Nigeria in the...
