Ake: The Years of ChildhoodA dazzling memoir of an African childhood from Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, playwright, and poet Wole Soyinka. |
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... Alake of Abeokuta . Even as the women were gathering for a meeting arranged by the Group to decide what reply to make to this attack , the same journal published a letter in her defence by someone who signed himself ' Onlooker ' . This ...
... Alake , Tinu and I , one day after church . I had hardly begun school then , and the lasting impression was one of a cemetery with no headstones , no marbles and whitewashed graves , only wooden figures which did not quite conform to ...
... Alake oloko ese . * Obviously , some time since the first courteous exchanges , the women had cast the Alake fully in the role of the arch - villain ; there was to be no more diplomacy . When the raiding team arrived , they were joined ...