'Some errors in the article in Glendora Nr3' ing in schools. I had little contact even with the staff of the University. The only expatriate teaching in Nigeria who was helpful in this respect was Gerald Moore. There was, of course, the vast archive of Janheinz Jahn to draw on. Remember that his anthology of African poetry (in German) appeared in 1 954! Otherwise most of the authors found me. I H E I heard of Peter Benson's work on the subject was when he sent me the completed thesis to read. He never interviewed me and I have never met him. My letter may have been a response to that thesis - but it was obviously too late 4) 'Obsessive' interest in the literatures of the black world. If you start a journal of African literature what else are you expected to publish in it other than African literature? Of course many African American authors felt that they belonged and they were anxious to appear in BO. That was a good reason to include them, I thought. As for Okigbo's remark: why didn't I publish white Americans, the answer is I did! Dorothy Obi, for example, and Peter Thomas, who was English and white, I even pubhaven't read it. 2) I was never a prisoner of war. I have never carried anybody's uniform let alone anybody's gun. (I was detained in a civilian camp as an 'enemy alien' but that is not the same thing). 3) 'His contacts among expatriates who taught in schools ensured that Beier gathered material rather rapidly....' I didn'tJ