Ìsarà
Subtitle: a voyage around essay
By: Wole Soyinka
Publisher: Bookcraft
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Ibadan, Nigeria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9789788457107
Subjects: Family; Nigerian Authors; Family relationships; Social life and customs; Fathers and sons; Biography; Families; Manners and customs
Description: "The contents of a tin box - handful of letters; old journals with marked pages and annotations; school reports; notebook jottings; tax and other levy receipts; minutes of meetings; and programme notes of special events - which belonged to his father, S.A. ("Essay") Soyinka, a school teacher during the colonial period in Nigeria, provide the grist for Isara: A Voyage Around Essay, the second instalment of Wole Soyinka's memoirs - a son's fictionalised "voyage" into the life and times of his father."--Publisher's website.