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

"Voyage Round Soyinka", Financial Times, 17 Mar 1990, p. XX Financial Times Historical Archive, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/HS2304028407/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=2898085d. Accessed 29 Jun 2019

In the article, Anthony Curtis discusses Wole Soyinka as a poet and spokesperson. Curtis writes, "[Soyinka] is able to distance himself from these situations and see them with humorous clarify as well as passionate indignation. Here is a major a writer who has faced two parallel disasters, that of being stultified by a shower of token honours in the west, and at home being put into gaol for subversion."