The theme of history in soyinka’s aké, the year of childhood
According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, history is the past events connected with the development of a particular place, subject, etc. Thus the nineteenth century was a period which impacted the history of African countries, between tradition and modernism. There was a mixing of African and European civilization; the latter through the colonization of Africa by Europe brought a lot of changes in African society on the political, economic and social levels.