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

"And Story", The Times Literary Supplement, 01 Apr 1965, p. 252 The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive,, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EX1200336192/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=76133b79. Accessed 17 Dec 2019

[Excerpt]: "There is one story in Mr. Richard Rive's selection which stings the tongue with the real taste of experience. Ironically enough, in this selection of modern English prose from Africa, it is a story translated from the Portuguese. We are not told by whom... What differences can be discerned between teh handling of the language by native English speakers like Jack Cope and by writers approaching it from another culture, with another music in their ears, like Achebe and Kariara? What popular idoms or dialects of English exist in Africa, and have any of these writers been able to come to terms with them? ... Again, there is none of the experimental prose now appearing in west Africa in the work of writers like Ibrahim Tahir, Gabriel Okara, and Babatunde Jones. All these are incomparably more interesting and liberating than most of what is offered here, with its conventional plots and undistinguished writing..."