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

"Too close for comfort", The Sunday Times, 15 Nov 1987, 60 The Sunday Times Historical Archive,, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/FP1801745258/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=c62da1b4. Accessed 27 Jul 2020

Penny Perrick reviews "Close Company: Stories of Mothers and Daughters" edited by Christine Park and Caroline Heaton. Excerpt: "The battle between mothers and daughters, a battle in which both are engaged as long as they both shall live, is both remorseless and futile. Every daughter knows that she will end up like her mother and yet fights for a spurious sense of identity... In The Late Bud by Ama Ata Aidoo, the naughty daughter - that is the hoydenish daughter - is never referred to as 'my child' as is her more amenable sister, a source of psychological torment. A mother's most deadly weapon is the withholding of knowledge; if a daughter is allowed to glimpse her future, she may not accept it..."