Use of the third person and the innocence of language in Aké Nigerian novelist Wole Soyinka's memoir, Aké, is a story told through eyes of a child. Many incidents and the dialogue within them are written in a tone that suggests innocence and actions that would only be performed by someone in a childlike state of mind. Soyinka's masterful use of this tone and the narrative's primary use of the first person combine to form a realistic image of childhood. In the third chapter we find the young Wole describing a sort of parade that is parading in front of the walls of his domestic compound. This moment appears to be the moment Wole first discovers the world beyond his front door. This realization can be compared to the destruction of the geocentric theory in which man comes to the realization that he is not the center of the universe. We see this realization in this quote from page 37: “Then it became clear that we in the rectory lived alone in a separate city, 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 procession there is a man walking with a tuba. Wole makes the association of the bell of the tuba and the bell part of a gramophone. Young Wole says: "Tinu and I had long rejected the story that the music coming from the gramophone was produced by a special singing dog locked in the car. We never saw him fed, so he would have been starving long ago I had not yet found the means 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 own family… middle of paper… in two places,” (187- 188) Wole, along with his companions, 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 ground' for others!" Childish actions are found in notions of justice, which are also found on page 188, when children become judge, jury and executioner of their peers with the line "Someone proposed that we search their bags...and it was widely acclaimed voice. "Writing a memoir through the eyes of a child can produce a very entertaining work, as demonstrated by Wole Soyinka. Through the use of the third person and the masterful use of innocence and the language of childhood, Soyinka has written a memoir that can make us remember what it was like to see the world through the eyes of a child.