Such a beautifully written autobiography. I loved how he wrote from his perspective as a young boy - it was so innocent and beautiful!

This book is pretty awesome, and a fairly quick read. Soyinka is just a great writer overall in terms of language choice and description, but this is the best I've read in terms of strong female characters.

I read it a long time ago; it made me want to be a writer. I very highly recommend it to anyone.

Hailed as the best African book of all time. This chronicles the life of Wole Soyinka in the time where the British colonized Nigeria, and World War 2 was going on. You need an expansive vocabulary to understand this.