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

"Orpheus in Africa", The Times Literary Supplement, 29 Apr 1965, p. 323 The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive,, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EX1200336466/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=55bde47f. Accessed 17 Dec 2019

[Excerpt]: "Both these anthologies have come together largely by chance. Both editors deny, in remarkably similar language, that they started out with the intention of making an anthology. Ulli Beier has drawn his material from the best stories which have appeared over the past five years in the magazine Black Orpheus, of which he has been one of the editors from its inception in 1957.... Cook's collection has an even closer university connexion, being derived from Penpoint, which was founded in 1958-59, the magazine of the English Department of Makerere University College in Kampala, the capital of Uganda...The Black Orpheus collection represents the second generation. In West Africa the use of English is long domesticated and now comes the urge to play with it. There is nothing here by Amos Tutuola, the first of the Nigerians to erupt into the consciousness of the European reading public with his startling word-play and fantastic subjects, but Gabriel Okara from Eastern Nigeria carries the game even further but also the syntax of his native Ijaw..."