Wole Soyinka's Aké: Theme and Subject

• Back in The Day: Past and Present in Soyinka's Aké
• Tension between Past and Present
• The Idyll of Childhood: An Adult Perspective in Soyinka's Aké
• Aké: The Years of Childhood, World War Two, and Post-Colonial Literature
• The Role of Childhood
• World War II and Personal History
• Conflict Between Colonial And Traditional Culture
• Religious Confusions in Soyinka's Aké
• Syncretic Religion and Colonized Spirituality in Soyinka's Aké
• Change
• The Authority of Landmarks
• Guests and Change in Aké
• Solitude's Influence on Wole Soyinka's Childhood
• Postcolonial Accounts of Childhood and Adulthood in Soyinka's Aké, Emecheta's Slave Girl, and Swift's Waterland
• Questions, Complexity, and Growing Up
• Ngugi wa Thiong'o on the Language Question