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

"Catalogue of the ridiculous", The Times, 02 Jul 1975, p. 11 The Times Digital Archive, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS185433314/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=9c7c7575. Accessed 17 Dec 2019

[Excerpt] "I have just spent a strange morning in a library. It was the reference section of the Johannesburg Municipal Library: I had entered, handed over my straw bag in exchange for for a disc, made my request to a solicitously attentive woman at the inquiry counter, followed her to a glass fronted case, waited while she unlocked it and removed a large, loose-leafed volume for me. Now I sat down among the other users of the library... My book was Jacobsen's Index of Objectionable Literature, a publication launched a few years ago by an enterprising man who realized that there was money to be made by collating and publishing in book-form the weekly list of South African censors' bannings... Most titles my finger was running down, page after page, were banned by the old Publications Control board, before April. They constitute virtually the entire oeuvre of black South African fiction writers, essayists and some poets, including Lewis Nkosi, Ezekiel Mphahlele, and Denis Brutus, and such individual works by myself, Dan Jacobson, Jack Cope, Mary Benson, C. J. Driver, Andre Brink, and other white South Africans..."