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My new book is indebted to 90s R&B. R&B has been giving language to heart breaks, romance but blossoming and flailing, for so long. So I adapted its form to write Affection & Other Accidents. Perhaps I should prepare a playlist.
Dami Ajayi
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Dami Ajayi
@JollyPaps1
Author of three volumes of poetry. Poet, preoccupied with language & songs. I write a newsletter London Listening Sessions on Substack.
- No one warns you that your 30s are for losing friendships, dissolving strong bonds that you thought time tested. Watching them thaw with a smoky finish of animals burning is quite the horror of flashbacks & nightmares. Pushing you to the tether of sanity & forgiveness, not of
- Really sad. RIP Great Thespian. His role in Kelani's Toluwanile as a landowner was a fine piece of work.BREAKING: Veteran actor, Ogun Majek, is dead tinyurl.com/ybltc2z3
- No one remembers the doctor who sacrifices the night chasing lab results & fighting for blood. Today, I appreciate you all House Officers who do the needful to keep your patients alive in a country such as ours.
- Replying to @OIuwatosinThe word schizophrenic feels somewhat derogatory in this context, but usage is definitely wrong
- Circa 2017, Yaba. Soyinka's portrait was the first work I collected. Placed it in my writing room to remind myself of what greatness could look like. Happy Birthday to the greatest to ever do it. More life. Photo by Hammed Adedeji.
- The Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Yaba has got Telephones lines. Call here 08155170000 & 09060001907. Let us make this viral for those who need it.
- Beats me how a superstar of a genre can miss the whole point of his genre in a condescending rant about his colleagues. But call it album promotion.“... AfroBeats as people call it, is mostly about nothing, literally nothing. there’s no substance to it” - Burna Boy on the Afrobeats scene recently.
- RIP Ras Kimono. We are still Under Pressure. Travel Well, Rastaman.
- Davido’s Timeless brings a new depth to Afrobeats escapist ethos, especially when you realise that he recorded that fine dance album while grieving.
- Wrapped was an intern’s idea. The best ideas came from unexpected places.
- Replying to @UgonnaLaCadena and @carlterverIt is that smell of Lekki, giving sewage and suya at the same time that does it for me.
