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

"Eng. Lit. Expands", The Times Literary Supplement, 04 Dec 1969, p. 1381 The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive,, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EX1200363078/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=e00b1378. Accessed 23 Jan 2020

[Excerpt]: "...In Africa, what is past or passing or to come makes up the contemporary community: and the modern African writer often reacts violently against it. Wole Soyinka in his plays belabours it like a latterday Yeats dethroning Irish nineteenth-century political rhetoric; George Awoonor-Williams in his poems hopes for a continuation of its wisdom in a materialistic rootless society; the late Christopher Okigbo measured the loss, the complete cancelling out. In Chinua Achebe's profound novels comes the most skilful handling of the theme: the bridging of time between village and city, all illuminated with a variety of tone, a subtlety of speech, which is only now being recognized, and which needed the critical understanding of John Pepper Clark, the Nigerian dramatist, to make the social nuances of its characters clear to the non-African reader..."