Chris Searle, ‘Hopes and Impediments/Chinua Achebe’, October 28th, 1988, Tribune, Vol. 52, Issue 44, p. 8.

Baldwin referenced in a review of Chinua Achebe's Hope and Impediments.

Hopes and Impediments ends eloquently with a tribute to James Baldwin. Achebe’s words describing the American novelist could be applied to his own contribution to Africa and the consolidation of its huge cultural strength: “to bear witness and to inspire and elevate the struggle for human freedom”.