AKE NI IGBA EWE (2001) – Wole SOYINKA [Akinwumi ISOLA (Trans.)]

This Yoruba translation of Wole Soyinka’s award winning and critically acclaimed childhood memoirs Ake: The Years of Childhood, one of the foremost Yoruba scholars in the world, returns the book to the author’s original language, thereby introducing this ‘joyous celebration of childhood’ to a whole new audience. A playwright in his own right, Isola has also translated Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman.