22 Wole Soyinka’s Ake: The Years of Childhood

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 Peter Abrahams’s A Wreath for Udomo 11
5. 2 Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart 25
6. 3 Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born 37
7. 4 Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter 49
8. 5 Driss Chraïbi’s Mother Comes of Age 63
9. 6 Lindsey Collen’s The Rape of Sita 75
10. 7 Maryse Condé’s Segu 85
11. 8 Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions 97
12. 9 Modikwe Dikobe’s The Marabi Dance 107
13. 10 Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood 115
14. 11 Buchi Emecheta’s The Slave Girl 133
15. 12 Nuruddin Farah’s Gifts 145
16. 13 Elsa Joubert’s Poppie Nongena 153
17. 14 J. Nozipo Maraire’s Zenzele: Letters to My Daughter 167
18. 15 Meja Mwangi’s Going Down River Road 177
19. 16 Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat 191
20. 17 Djibril Tamsir Niane’s Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali 203
21. 18 Flora Nwapa’s Efuru 215
22. 19 Ferdinand Oyono’s Houseboy 229
23. 20 Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North 241
24. 21 Ousmane Sembene’s God’s Bits of Wood 251
25. 22 Wole Soyinka’s Ake: The Years of Childhood 271
26. 23 Moyez G. Vassanji’s The Gunny Sack 287
27. 24 P. T. Zeleza’s Smouldering Charcoal 297
28. Novels by Region 306
29. Novels by Principal Themes 308
30. The Contributors 309
31. About the Book 314