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Ake

von Wole Soyinka

Biography Non-Fiction History

ISBN

0679725407

Verlag

Vintage

Erschienen

01.01.1970

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African literature memoir autobiography childhood Yoruba culture Nigerian history World War II Yoruba village cultural heritage family life Christian upbringing Yoruba spirituality Nobel Prize author literary memoir African childhood 20th century coming-of-age lyrical writing humor cultural identity historical context African autobiography Wole Soyinka Nigeria Yoruba traditions literary classic personal narrative African authors cross-cultural experiences memoirs of childhood.

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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.