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

"Commentary", The Times Literary Supplement, 02 Oct 1969, p. 1128 The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive,, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EX1200361533/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=434aee80. Accessed 17 Dec 2019

[Excerpt]: "The new African writing has come a long way since the early 1950s when its preoccupations reached publication under titles as Elizabeth's passion and How to write love letters. Authors even then were not shy to take liberties with the English language... Anglophone Africa had to wait ten years before it could begin to read these books in translation and it is still waiting for the Mongo Beti novel, which is currently being translated by Gerald Moore and will then join the other two in the African Writers Series of Heinemann Educational Books. General editor of this series which, including forthcoming books, extends to some 73 titles, is the Ibo, Chinua Achebe, whose first novel, Things Fall Apart, published in 1958, is a classic of modern African writing which has become well known through translations into many languages...[Achebe] identifies himself wholeheartedly with the Biafran cause and he and two other gifted young writers, Cyprian Ekwensi and Gabriel Okara, have undertaken highly paid lecture tours in the United States to raise funds for their country. Achebe's publisher asked him while he was in London not so long ago whether he was in fact here on diplomatic business. "No," he replied, "on sedition."