Aké: The Years of Childhood — Aké / Aké, les années d'enfance, mémoires d'Abeokuta

Authors : Wole Soyinka

Genres : récit autobiographique

Original language : anglais

Editions

  • Longman / Rapp & Whiting, 1981 en
  • Belfond, 1984 fr

Soyinka recalls his childhood in Aké, a neighborhood of Abeokuta where his grandfather’s aristocratic pastor resided: a colorful Yoruba world, between missionary school, markets and spirits. An example of African autobiographical classicism.

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