🇳🇬 DAMI AJAYI for 🇿🇦The African Imaginary at Ake Books Festival 🇳🇬 Dami Ajayi is a Nigerian psychiatrist, poet, and cultural critic. His essays on music and culture have appeared in The Africa Report, Chimurenga Chronic, Afropolitan Vibes Magazine, Lost in Lagos Magazine, Global Voices, Music in Africa, The Republic, and The Elephant. Ajayi’s poetry has earned critical acclaim, with Clinical Blues shortlisted for the Melita Hume Prize (2012) and longlisted for the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature (2017). His second collection, A Woman’s Body is a Country, was a finalist for the Glenna Luschei Prize (2018). He curates London Listening Sessions, a newsletter exploring West African music. He lives in London, United Kingdom.
Here are his 5 Favourites:
1. Ayinla Omowura – Life and times of an Apala Legend by Festus Adedayo
2. Love is Power or Something Like That by Igoni Barrett
3. The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera
4. Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
5. Poems of Black Africa edited by Wole Soyinka
