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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AKE, v.i. Less properly written ache. [See Ache.]
1. To be in pain; usually, in pain of some continuance.
2. To feel distress of mind; to be grieved; as, the heart akes.
AKE, n. Continued pain, less severe than is expressed by pang, agony, and torment; as, the tooth-ake; head-ake. It is commonly used in composition with the name of the part affected, as head-ake.

Britannica Concise

Nigerian political scientist and activist. He received his PhD from Columbia Univ. in 1966. He founded the Center for Advanced Social Science in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and was active in efforts to uncover environmental and human-rights abuses by the Nigerian government. His books on African development and politics made him one of Africa's leading political scientists. He served as a consultant to Royal Dutch/Shell Group, but angrily resigned in 1995 to protest the execution of the activist K. Saro-Wiwa. He died the next year in a plane crash, whose cause has been disputed.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ake Ake, n. & v. See Ache.

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