Title: Ìsarà
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.
Subjects: Family, Nigerian Authors, Family relationships, Social life and customs, Fathers and sons, Biography, Families, Manners and customs, College teachers, Personal narratives, History
Places: Nigeria
People: Wole Soyinka
Time periods: 20th century