[{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/dami-ajayi-wikipedia\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/dami-ajayi-wikipedia\/","headline":"Dami Ajayi – Wikipedia","name":"Dami Ajayi – Wikipedia","description":"before-content-x4 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia after-content-x4 Nigerian of Yoruba descent (born 1986) Dami \u00c0j\u00e0y\u00ed (born 1986) is a Nigerian","datePublished":"2021-05-02","dateModified":"2021-05-02","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/author\/lordneo\/#Person","name":"lordneo","url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/author\/lordneo\/","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c9645c498c9701c88b89b8537773dd7c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c9645c498c9701c88b89b8537773dd7c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/wiki4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/download.jpg","url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/wiki4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/download.jpg","width":600,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:CentralAutoLogin\/start?type=1x1","url":"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:CentralAutoLogin\/start?type=1x1","height":"1","width":"1"},"url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/dami-ajayi-wikipedia\/","wordCount":2715,"articleBody":"     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});before-content-x4From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Nigerian of Yoruba descent (born 1986)Dami \u00c0j\u00e0y\u00ed (born 1986) is a Nigerian poet, medical doctor, essayist and music critic. He co-founded Saraba magazine in 2008.[1] He is the author of two collections of poetry and a chapbook.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Biography[edit]Dami \u00c0j\u00e0y\u00ed was born in Nigeria in 1986. While he was an undergraduate of medicine at the Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, he co-founded Saraba Magazine with another student.[2] He also cofounded media outlets The Lagos Review and YabaLeft Review, with writers Toni Kan and Tunji Olalere respectively.\u00c0j\u00e0y\u00ed was featured in the two-part BBC Radio 4 documentary Writing a New Nigeria.[3]In 2011, \u00c0j\u00e0y\u00ed was listed among the “Eight Young Nigerian Poets Whose Poems Delight” on the Sentinel UK Poetry Blog.[4] His first collection of poems, Clinical Blues, was shortlisted (in manuscript form) for the Melita Hume Prize in 2012.[5][6] It was published by WriteHouse in 2014, and was longlisted for the biennial Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa.[7][8]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4In 2017, his second collection of poetry, A Woman’s Body is a Country, was published by Ouida Books).[9] Of the work, \u00c0j\u00e0y\u00ed says: “I wanted my book to show how the noun ‘affection’ becomes a verb, and in my attempt I was drawing from a personal reservoir, hoping that my experiences are singular as well as universal.”[10] He has been described as one who “writes about love like liquor that drowns a person into his or her feelings.”[11]Prose and criticism[edit]\u00c0j\u00e0y\u00ed has written short stories that have been published in Nigeria and abroad. He currently provides critical reviews about Nigerian music to a number of online publications.[12][13][14][15][16]He was also one of the editors of the anthology From Limbe to Lagos\u00a0: NonFiction from Cameroon and Nigeria, which was the result of a writing workshop held in Limbe[2] for young African writers.Clinical Blues (2014)A Woman’s Body is a Country (2017)References[edit]^ “The Last Good Book I Read… Dami Ajayi (Poet) A Stranger’s Pose by Emmanuel Iduma”. Daily Trust. 7 September 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2020.^ a b “Q&A: Words on the Times \u2013 Dami Ajayi”. Africa in Words. 26 February 2021. Retrieved 14 March 2022.^ “Writing a New Nigeria – Meet the authors”. BBC Radio 4.^ “Citadel of Life”. citadeloflife1.blogspot.com.ng. Retrieved 23 November 2017.^ “Dami Ajayi”. badilishapoetry.com. Retrieved 23 November 2017.^ “Melita Hume Poetry Prize Shortlist: #11 Dami Ajayi”. Eyewear, The Blog. 6 June 2012. Retrieved 23 November 2017.^ “Nine African poets shortlisted for 2018 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature”, P.M. News, 3 November 2018.^ Daily Graphic (19 November 2018), “9 African poets on 2018 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature list”, Graphic Online.^ Mbamalu, Socrates (23 October 2017). “A Woman’s Body is a Country: Africa’s most anticipated poetry collection”. This Is Africa. Retrieved 23 November 2017.^ “Each Collection Dictates Its Own Process: Conversation with Dami Ajayi”. This Is Africa Lifestyle. 12 October 2017. Archived from the original on 30 October 2017. Retrieved 23 November 2017.^ Shoola, Oyindamola (6 November 2017). “Dami Skillfully Conveys Meanings in ‘A Woman’s Body Is a Country’“. WRR Publishers. Retrieved 23 November 2017.^ Ajayi, Dami (14 July 2017). “Yahoo Boy No Laptop”. Chimurenga Chronic.^ Ajayi, Dami (25 May 2021). “Nigeria: Afrobeats’ unpaid debt to highlife’s Crosdale Juba”. The Africa Report.^ Ajayi, Dami (14 December 2019). “Finding Lagos: A Jazz Tribute to an African City”. The Elephant.^ Ajayi, Dami (July 2019). “Nigeria’s King Sunny Ad\u00e9: ‘I see myself as a freelance’“. The Africa Report.^ “Nigeria’s Ayinla Omowura: The original gangster and patron saint of Abeokuta’s working class”. March 2021.     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/dami-ajayi-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Dami Ajayi – Wikipedia"}}]}]