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

"Uprooting the malignat fictions", The Times Literary Supplement, 23 Sep 1988, 1043 The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive,, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EX1200455973/TLSH?u=linc74325&sid=gale_api&xid=6232c2e1. Accessed 23 Jan 2020

[Excerpt]: "The critical work represented in the selected essays of the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee and the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe is of a new and superior order, mobilizing the best creative and criticla energies of two writers as committed to their craft as they are to exposing what Achebe calls the 'monster of racist habit.' In both cases the critique of a 'white' culture (whether European, American, or South African)--its assu,ptions, blind spots, abuses of language, logic or humanity--is based on a scrupulous examination of evidence, as it emerges within early travel writing, anecdotes, or the work of individual authors who appear to be transmittig the 'truth' of a continent and its indigenous peoples, but are often perpetuating Western conceptual grids... [Achebe's] collection begins with his analysis of Conrad and ends with a tribute to James Baldwin. Along the way there are speeches on broad topics, such as 'The Truth of Fiction' and 'Thoughts on the African Novel,' a personal tribute to Christopher Okigbo, and passing reflections on the present needs of his own society..."