A life shaped by a larger cause; Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka chronicles his adult life in the second half of his memoirs.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book review)

The Christian Science Monitor | April 11, 2006 | Copyright

Byline: Marjorie Kehe

Some readers may know Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka best as a playwright, author of works like "Death and the King's Horseman," which give dramatic voice to the clash of Western and African values. Others may instead associate Soyinka with politics and remember him as the Nigerian author who endured both jail and exile for decrying tyranny in his homeland.

But among those who feel they know and love him best will be readers of "Ake: The Years of Childhood," Soyinka's 1981 memoir about his childhood in colonial Nigeria in the 1930s and ...

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