Use of the third person and the innocence of language in AkéThe memoirs of the Nigerian novelist Wole Soyinka, Aké, are a story told through the eyes of a child. Many incidents and the dialogues within these incidents are written in a tone suggestive of innocence and actions that would only be performed by someone in a childlike state of mind. Soyinka's masterful use of this tone and primary use of the first person in the narration combine to form a realistic picture of childhood. In the third chapter we find young Wole describing a sort of parade taking place before the walls of his house. This moment seems to be when Wole first discovers the world beyond his front door. This realization can be compared to the destruction of the geocentric theory in which man realizes that he is not the center of the universe. We see this realization in this quote from page 37: “It then became clear that we at the rectory were living alone in a separate town and that Aké was the rest of what I could see. » Another example of childish thinking can be found in the description of a tuba. In the parade, there is a man walking with a tuba. Wole combines the bell of the tuba and the bell of a gramophone. Young Wole says: “Tinu and I had long rejected the story that the music that came out of the gramophone was made by a special singing dog locked inside the machine. We never saw him feed, so he would have died of starvation a long time ago. not yet found a way to open the machine, so the mystery remained" (41). Here we find childish reasoning at its best. At the end of Wole's story of his exploration of the world outside his milieu familial...... middle of paper ...... two places," (187- 188) Wole, along with his comrades, expresses this belief in bad magic. Another example of childish rationality can be seen in the quick belief in a conspiracy theory seen in this line from page 188: “…they had come to. “spoil the field” for others! » Childish actions are found in notions of justice, which we also find on page 188, when children become judge, jury and executioner of their peers with the sentence “Someone suggested that we search their luggage. .. and was vehemently acclaimed. "Writing a memoir through the eyes of a child can produce a very entertaining work, as Wole Soyinka proves. Through the use of the third person and the masterful use of innocence and language of childhood, Soyinka has written a memoir that can remind us what it was like to see the world through the eyes of a child..