Free PDF/EPUB: Ake: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka [Download] · February 11, 2022 · 0 Comments; By lanrenews. Ake: The Years of Childhood Click toIts back was turned to the world of spirits and ghommids who inhabited the thick woods and chased home children who had wandered too deeply in them for firewood A dazzling memoir of an African childhood from Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, playwright, and poet Wole Soyinka. Aké: The Years of Childhood Aké : the years of childhood ; Author: Wole Soyinka ; Additional Physical Format: Print version: Soyinka, Wole. Aké. New York : Vintage Books, 1983, ©1981 (DLC) On pg. 59 Soyinka describes a LANDMARK in his home. Take 5 minutes to emulate this passage with a landmark from your own childhood. Christianity and Colonialism.