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

"Winning struggle to reestablish African culture alongside the economic revolution", The Times, 09 Oct 1972, p. VIII The Times Digital Archive, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CS537098057/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=b31cd74d. Accessed 29 Jun 2019

"Although economic considerations now outweigh most others in the minds of most African people and their leaders in their quest for national images, there is in Nigeria, as in many other African countries, a growing cultural awareness in the face of the political turmoil that plagues most of the continent....Haunted by the knowledge that these ancient kingdoms [of Africa] had well-developed cultural and political organizations of their own, today's African countries are at the crossroads...The dilemma of most African countries is to find that way forward which involves a marriage between economics, culture and politics..."