A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985

"Agisymbolic", The Times Literary Supplement, 08 Sep 1966, p. 816 The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive,, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/EX1200342910/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=f3ec4684. Accessed 01 Jul 2019

The review entitled Agisymbolic is critical of Janheinz Jahn collection of works; the "heterogenous material" included in his book varies from "Juan Latino, who wrote bad poems in Latin in praise of Spanish noblemen; Langston Hughes pleading for sympathy; Somali poets imitating Arabic ideas of chivalry," and so on. The critic is skeptical of Jahn's suggestion that all of "the black African cultures south of the Sahara form a cultural unit" and that they can be collectively called Agisymbia. Jahn defines neo-African literature all writing that contains Agisymbian-style elements, but never truly explains what an "Agisymbian" element includes.