A review in the Journal of the African Society, noting how Casely Hayford had "cast his ideas on the subject of racial problems more or less into the form of fiction", concluded that the book afforded "interesting glimpses of native life, of the life of African students in London, and of officialdom on the Gold Coast as it impresses the native mind. The unusual point of view alone would make the book worth reading for Europeans, apart from the intrinsic interest of the problems under discussion; and the freshness and simplicity with which they are presented, even the occasional quaintness which reminds us that English is not the author's natural medium of expression, render it unusually attractive."Casely Hayford, J. E. (1971), "From the Journal of the African Society, October, 1911, No. XLI, Vol. XI", The Truth about the West African Land Question, p. 3.
