“My favorite work by Soyinka, and one of my two or three favorite works of all time by an African author. Soyinka, of course, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. He’s mostly known for his plays and poetry, along with some spectacular political stunts, such as once holding up the dj at a Nigerian radio station at gunpoint so that he could play a tape he’d made satirizing the Nigerian head of state. But this work is an autobiography, focusing on his childhood. He’s a challenging...”

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