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

"The people who are Africa", The Times Literary Supplement, 02 Apr 2010, 5 The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive,, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EX1200553362/TLSH?u=linc74325&sid=gale_api&xid=77c05670. Accessed 23 Jan 2020

[Excerpt]: "Chinua Achebe is often called the father of the modern African novel, as Bernth Lindfors attests in the introduction to Early Achebe, his perceptive collection of essays on Achebe's output between 1951 and 1966. While this praise may seem exaggerated, it is not unwarranted -- though to regard Achebe's first and most famous novel, Things Fall Apart, published in London in 1958, as an "African" novel only underplays its status as one of the most influential post-war novels in English, one that still possesses the power to startle the reader with its vivid description of a complex society in the throes of momentous change. It was the first in the African Writers Series, the Heinemann Educational Books project that revolutionized the field of of anglophone African writing by providing literature for African readers by African writers.... Ike Osodi, the journalist character in Anthills of the Savannah (modelled in part on Achebe's late poet-fighter friend Christopher Okigbo), is a spokesman for this middle ground..."