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

"The arrest of Ken Saro-Wiwa", The Times Literary Supplement, 02 Jul 1993, p. 16 The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive,, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EX1200179830/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=a0a27a12. Accessed 23 Jan 2020

[Excerpt]: "At three o'clock on the afternoon of June 21, the President of the Nigerian Association of Writers, Ken Saro-Wiwa, was arrested in Port Harcourt, and has been held incommunicado ever since. He had long been expecting such a move against him. He had also long had doubts about the value of literature as a vocation in a social and political situation as critical as Nigeria's. For the past two years, he had devoted himself to promoting the interests of the Ogoni people, the ethnic group to which he belongs... Born in 1941, he attended Umuahia Government College, the school from which many eminent Nigerian writers--Chinua Achebe, Elechi Amadi, Christopher Okigbo among others-- graduated...."