The car in your hand is an aeroplane' - Niyi Osundare's (1986) Song of the Nigerian Driver
The other day I found another poem that fits the
subject of my current project, i.e. lorry decorations. To pay respect where it
is due, I acknowledge my debt to Christiane Fioupou (1994) who mentioned this poem
in her study of representations of the road in Wole Soyinka's works. I may have
found it eventually – I am currently still flicking through issues of the
weekly West Africa in which it has been published.
However, it would have taken me a long time.