# Ake

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- Book: [Ake](https://www.bookquiver.com/wole-soyinka/ake) ([Ake.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/wole-soyinka/ake.md))
- Authors: [Wole Soyinka](https://www.bookquiver.com/wole-soyinka)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7972-540-4
- Pages: 240
- Published: 1989-10-23
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...