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Good story-if you can get through the writing style! - Goodreads Wole Soyinka gets rave reviews as a writer. - Goodreads The making of a giant writer - Goodreads Review: Aké: The Years of ChildhoodUser Review - Kelsey Demers - GoodreadsNobel Prize winning author Wole Soyinka's autobiography is truly not an easy read. His dense writing requires the reader's constant attention, but the attentive reader will be rewarded with a ... Read full review Review: Aké: The Years of ChildhoodUser Review - Bjorn - GoodreadsAké, the first volume of Nigerian Nobel prize winner Wole Soyinka's (possibly slightly fictionalised) autobiography, is the first book of his I've read. For most authors, an autobiography is probably ... Read full review Related books
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