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

"Literature: Critics in each other's bad books", The Times, 18 Jan 1977, p. IV The Times Digital Archive, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS503676978/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=08650e6a. Accessed 17 Dec 2019

Alastair Niven reviews the growth of African literature in recent years [excerpt]: "More than 10 years ago Eldred Jones, a leading critic of African literature, compared the flowering of creative writing then evident in Africa to the brilliant burst of imaginative energy in English literature between 1590 and 1610... Even works which seem to honour African history with some straightforwardness, like Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958), have hinted at interior weaknesses in the local personality which have been forewarnings of dissensions to come in the heyday of colonialism and of corruptions after independence... Ten years ago people argued whether Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter could be considered an African novel. Now they battle over the aesthetic criteria for evaluating literature which does not need to look to Europe for its legitimacy. Elizabethan England was ride with critical disputes and pamphleteering wars. The literature of Africa will not suffer if the same happens here."