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

"Rumbustious Start to Festival", The Times, 15 Sep 1965, p. 14 The Times Digital Archive, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CS236153135/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=e8879b66. Accessed 29 Jun 2019

The drama side of the Commonwealth Arts Festival certainly gets off to a rumbustious start with this play by the young Nigerian writer, Wole Soyinka. Rambling and discursive though it is, it exercises a weird fascination. Set in a tumbledown drivers' haven in Nigerian, it shows the dominance of the road over the inhabitants. It can either provide them with a precarious livelihood or confront them with gruesome death... Mr. Soyinka shows that he has a gift for naturalistic dialogue, flecked with bright imagery, and a sharp eye for character...