Ajayi
The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Lagos State chapter will on Saturday, December 9 hosts Dr. Tolu Ajayi, a novelist and poet who is also celebrating his 50 years as a writer.
Toluwalogo Ajayi is a Nigerian Poet and writer of fiction, born in Ijebu-Ode in 1946. Ajayi was educated in Nigeria and the United Kingdom where he qualified in 1970 as a physician at the University of Liverpool Medical School. He also specialised in psychiatry at Memorial University inNewfoundland, Canada. Most of Ajayi’s novels and stories draw on his medical experience.
Some of Tolu Ajayi’s works are The Year (London: Macmillan, 1981),The Lesson (Lagos, Nigeria: Granny Fatima, 1985); The Ghost of a Millionaire (Heinemann Educational Books Nigeria, 1990). ; Eyes of the Night, short story collection including his 1990 BBC World Service winning story “Family Planning” (Lagos, Nigeria: Granny Fatima, 1991); Images of Lives: Poems for Everyone, poetry collection (Lagos, Nigeria: Granny Fatima, 1991);Motions and Emotions: Fumes of Poetic Feelings, poetry collection (Lagos, Nigeria: Granny Fatima, 1993); After A Bad Moon: a Sh-to-vel, story collection(Lagos, Nigeria: Granny Fatima, 1995).
According to ANA Lagos Chairman Mr. Adeyemi Adebiyi, the event will take place at Ade Allen Hall, Yoruba Tennis Club, Lagos by 11:00am prompt.
