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

"Little attention paid to youth culture", The Times, 30 Sep 1971, VII The Times Digital Archive, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS587691326/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=c0d6574e. Accessed 27 Jul 2020

Excerpt: "The performing arts have always had the edge over all others in Ghana. No matter where one comes from, one's first exposure to fiction is most likely to have been in the form of dramatized folk tales, with a group audience, in which the narrator would act each character in turn, with interest being sustained through the creation of junctions in the story at which a pause could conveniently be made and a song interjected...When Ama Ata Aidoo writes a story about a girl and her wig, you can hear the Fanti-Woman bursting through it, alive and well, and ready at any moment to rush on to the sands of the beach to tease a headload of fish out of the sinewy fishermen who dare not to go to sea on Tuesdays... Unfortunately, not much of the young people's culture is reflected in the newspapers or the other media, though there is a channel on Ghana Radio that attempts to reach the youngsters with pop music..."