Aké: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka

Aké: The Years of Childhood

Wole Soyinka

230 pages first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction memoir challenging reflective medium-paced
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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 we...

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Moods

reflective 83%
informative 66%
emotional 33%
funny 33%
inspiring 33%
sad 33%
adventurous 16%
challenging 16%
lighthearted 16%
tense 16%

Pace

medium 57%
slow 42%

Average rating

3.71

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