Ekwensi characterized his part as essayist along these lines

history channel documentary hd In a 1972 meeting by Lewis Nkosi, Ekwensi characterized his part as essayist along these lines: "I think I am an author who views himself as an author for the masses. I don't consider myself an abstract beautician: if my style comes, that is simply accidental, however I am more keen on getting at the heart of reality which the man in the road can perceive than in simply turning words." Ernest Emenyonu, a Nigerian pundit noted for his sensitivity towards Ekwensi, charges that Ekwensi "has never been effectively surveyed as an author."

Another thoughtful critic,the long-standing American believer to the investigation of African Literature, Charles Larson, depicts him as a standout amongst the most productive African journalists of the twentieth century. As per Larson, Ekwensi "is presumably the most broadly read writer in Nigeria- - maybe even in West Africa- - by perusers whose scholarly tastes have not been presented to the more perplexing works of Chinua Achebe and other more talented African authors." Kole Omotoso past President of Nigerian Association of Authors and Drama educator at University of Ibadan admitted a long lasting interest with him subsequent to perusing his novelette The Yaba Round about Murder as a youngster, for, as he admits, it showed him the significance of space in composing fiction. Omotoso goes ahead to express that Ekwensi's significant significance in Nigerian composition is on account of he put stock in himself and 'made us have faith in ourselves.' The dish Africanist inclination of his works and his distributions being for the most part in Nigeria were discovered estimable. At the point when numerous other African essayists were in self-oust, he stayed in his local nation, instead of live abroad where distributed open doors are more inexhaustible.