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

"Through the Drum", The Times Literary Supplement, 29 Dec 1972, p. 1573 The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive,, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EX1200386452/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=93fa4883. Accessed 17 Dec 2019

[Excerpt]: "A comparison of two recent critical studies of African fiction raises the whole question of whether its effective criticism demands the isolation of an appropriate aesthetic, distinct from that assumed in teh study of the European or American novel. Any reader turning first to Eustace Palmer, as being the African in this brace of critics, is likely to be disappointed in his search for special illumination.... The collection of recorded interviews with various authors assembled in African Writers Talking derives its value from the fact that most of the writers have been interviewed several times, over a period of some years, and by different interlocutors. The result is a considerable illumination of the developing consciouness in men like Achebe, Okigbo, Awoonor, Ngugi, and Soyinka; consciousness about their own work, the nature of the art in which they work, and the degree of their obligation to be quite consciously teachers, stimulators and even admonishers of their societies...."