What is the Message?

So far, I love Soyinka's portrayal of himself as a child. He represents all the goodness there is in life. He has not yet been tainted by events of his life Tambu was and he he does not have an abusive family like Nwoye did. This is why I find "Ake" to be a refreshing novel. Soyinka wrote this novel as an autobiography and includes his accounts of encountering colonialism. Like we discussed in class today, Soyinka is against colonialism but so is Ngugi. And Ngugi would highly disagree with Soyinka's portrayal of colonization in this novel. So, this makes me think what message Soyinka actually wanted to portray. Was he trying to make us feel as if colonization is not that big of a deal by saying that it actually brings new ideas (like Christianity) that can be integrated into the African lifestyle? Both Achebe and Dangarembga's novels were straightforward in their view of colonization: that its wrong.I feel that Soyinka, however, isn't as clear because he shows himself as a happy go lucky kid who was not changed in a very negative manner by colonialism as Tambu was. I think this has a lot to do with the fact that he had a pagan father and a Christian mother so he really feels he can't say anything negative about either of them. He found his parents capable of a happy marriage so he might think that everyone else should also be able to live peacefully in a community where there are different cultures present.