Cover of Aké: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka

History & Lives · First published 1981

Aké: The Years of Childhood

by Wole SoyinkaNigeria

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Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka's memoir of his childhood in Aké, in western Nigeria, in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Which Nigerian books does every serious reader know?“Soyinka's childhood, told with a novelist's eye.”Essential Nigerian literature · The Learningaid desk

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