Surrealism

1.I have climbed all the mountains in the world. I have climbed the tallest trees to their apical leaves. I have cruised the endless waters to the points where the earth kisses the sky, or back to my starting point in Lagos on the occasion when I kept westfor four hundred years for refusing to […]

Translated by Ibrahim Fawzy It seems to him that he deserves the Nobel Prize for Laziness. He sees his head assassinated by idleness, digging swirls of silence in his blood in a similar way to digging gas lines in the street where he lives.  His everyday dreams gather like insects, haunting his body in successive […]