Mentioned by The Mumpsimus

In a post reviewing the latest issue of The Quarterly Conversation, Matthew Cheney of The Mumpsimus focuses on ... my review of Gods and Soldiers! Here’s an excerpt:

The piece that has, for the moment, most caught my attention is a review by Geoff Wisner of Rob Spillman’s anthology Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing.... I found myself mumbling, “Yes, yes, yes...” as I read his review. For instance, he notes one of my first hesitations, the oddity of including Chinua Achebe’s classic essay “The African Writer and the English Language” and not an essay by, for instance, Ngugi wa Thiong’o in response—there has been, for decades, a passionate debate among all sorts of different post-colonial writers about English, native languages, etc., and to offer only one perspective on it, even one as nuanced as Achebe’s, does not admit the debate and thus distorts the context.