This essay analyses about a hundred articles written by Boubacar Boris Diop and published in Senegalese newspapers between 1979 and 1996, to show how these texts, which represent part of his work as a journalist, become for him the site of a critical and theoretical reflection on African literature. Diop, an author and a translator, thus creates a meta-discourse which not only comments on literary texts, but itself becomes a fully literary text. He first voices his opinion on commitment on the part of writers, and throws a sharp, pessimistic look on African literature. Yet beyond that, those learned, critical texts, which are initially meant to inform readers on the literary production of the time, become literary creations in their own right, replete with aesthetic stances and devices. They become synthetic, hybrid works, which can be seen as standing at the intersection of several genres.