The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Lagos State
chapter has conclude plans to host Dr. Tolu Ajayi, a novelist and poet who is
also celebrating his 50 years as a writer, reports ITRealms.
The hosting, ITRealms
gathered has been slated for this Saturday, 9th of December, 2017, at Ade Allen
Hall, Yoruba Tennis Club, Lagos by 11:00am prompt.
Confirming this, ANA Lagos Chairman Mr. Adeyemi Adebiyi,
said Dr. Toluwalogo Ajayi was born in 1946, at Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State and is
proudly a Nigerian poet and writer of fiction.
Ajayi was educated in Nigeria and the United Kingdom; in the
latter country, he qualified in 1970 as a physician at the University of
Liverpool Medical School. He also specialized in psychiatry at Memorial University
in Newfoundland, Canada, stressing that most of Ajayi's novels and stories draw
on his medical experience.
ITRealms further gathered that some of Tolu Ajayi’s works are The Year (London: Macmillan,
1981). ISBN 0-333-35280-7; The Lesson (Lagos, Nigeria: Granny Fatima, 1985);
The Ghost of a Millionaire (Heinemann Educational Books Nigeria, 1990). ISBN
978-129-174-5; 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).
Uj. N. Dominic/GEE
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