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

"African Culture Asserted After Struggle", The Times, 22 Jul 1976, p. XIII The Times Digital Archive, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CS755465974/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=cb2d4352. Accessed 29 Jun 2019

"The pre-colonial artistic heritage of Nigeria suffered decay while the country was under British rule. Both Christianity, the religion of the colonial masters, and Islam, which made impressive gains under Pax Britannica, were opposed to manifestations of their converts' ancestral religions, although the latter was more tolerant of them... But the most exciting developments have been in literature, where the late Christopher Okigbo, the poet, Chinua Achebe, a novelist and poet, and Wole Soyinka, poet, playwright, novelist, have proved themselves superb craftsmen who leave the reader in no doubt of their identity, yet handle the English language with the same confidence as the best of their native English-speaking contemporaries."