Dami Ajayi
A BEER CALLED LIFE | Dami Ajayi
There is a beer called Life. I kid you not. A brand of green bottle lager that sells at a remarkably lower price compared to beer standards. Like Hero, it is a favourite of the working class. But there is a particular type of artisan down on his luck, or certain about his come-up who…
A Quest for Sobriety – 4
Alice cooks Olo’s dinner naked save for her batik wrapper draped over her breasts. She boils the meat in a broth spiced with fresh peppers so that the tenderized meat will taste slightly hot. Thoroughly washed and shredded vegetables spend about a minute in boiling water. She cleans the ponmo with the blunt edge of…
A Quest for Sobriety – 3
This is how they met: a plump lady is walking out of the STI Clinic with a cellophane bag as a dapper doctor in an over-sized white coat is walking in. They meet at the door. At the same instant, they stop for each other. Then they move towards the door together. Then they both…
A Quest for Sobriety – 2
Meet Olo, Alice’s husband, again. He is still lying on an armchair in his living room, snoring away his Saturday. He will wake up soon enough with a splitting headache and a mouthful of sputum and a spell of nausea. He drank too much last night. He drinks too much every night. He is a…
“A Quest for Sobriety” by Dami Ajayi
The quest for Olo’s sobriety begins one Friday night while his wife sits in a creaking armchair in their living room, staring intermittently at the ticking wall clock, waiting impatiently for him to return home to his dog-nose cold dinner. Amope or Alice, as she likes to be called, is dressed in house clothes, a…
Codeine Diet by Dami Ajayi
Codeine Diet Online is a weak cyber-metaphor for high But you already know Like you know blue is still the colour of the sky
Book Launch: A Woman’s Body is a Country by Dami Ajayi
On the 10th of March 2018 at the Subterranea, Ilupeju, Dami Ajayi launched his second volume of poems – A Woman’s Body is a Country. The book launch, convened by Ms Safurat Balogun, was a conversation with the author and anchored by Kola Tubosun. A live music performance by Celeste opened the event as the…
Finish Whatever You Write – Interview with Dami Ajayi
Not new to expressing emotions and weaving words as he has been doing this since he was eleven, Dami Ajayi is a medical doctor, writer/poet and a music critic. In 2012, his debut poetry collection, Clinical Blues, was shortlisted for the International Melita Hume Poetry Prize. Either on Sarabmag, where he serves as the Fiction…