Dami Ajayi

Dami Ajayi Damilola Àjàyí (born 1986) is a Nigerian writer, poet and medical doctor who co-founded Saraba, a Nigerian literary magazine in 2008. Quotes It wasn’t inspired. I had started a magazine with a few friends of mine in junior secondary school and we had all forms of writing, except poetry, so I picked my pen and composed two poems, one called Money and another called Life. Finish Whatever You Write – Interview with Dami Ajayi True, time is never enough but I am not a first. Chekhov. Maugham. Carlos Williams. They all grappled with both. And on the home front, James Henshaw, Wale Okediran, Niran Okewole. They are writing and healing simultaneously, so why blame time when you can race against it? Finish Whatever You Write – Interview with Dami Ajayi Music is my first love. As a child, I loved music. As a teenager, I pressed my ear so hard to the radio that I was the go-to guy if you knew a tune but don’t know who sang it. In a club in Nairobi last year, I was with a couple of friends and I could predict the next song of the D.J just from the opening beats, I am that crazy about music. Poetry is something I taught myself. Doctoring is what I learnt in school. Finish Whatever You Write – Interview with Dami Ajayi Not a lot of my poems, no? Have you read my book? So Freud had this nice solution to all things. Pleasure, most especially sex. I am Neo-Freudian in a traditional sense. I think sex influences our lives in a myriad of ways. Plus, I wrote a good number of my poems in my early 20s so excuse their exuberance. The naughty poems have an uncanny way of being the most memorable. To the question of inspiration, that is simple. I take what my senses present to me. Finish Whatever You Write – Interview with Dami Ajayi I am doing three projects. One is my collection of short stories, I took to calling it “People You May Know” recently.Second is another collection of poems called, “The World According to Affection” Third is a book on Nigerian Music. Finish Whatever You Write – Interview with Dami Ajayi External links Category:Living people Category:1986 births Category:Nigerian writers