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Dami Ajayi
@JollyPaps1
an author, a poet, tweets about songs
Lagos/London
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    Dami Ajayi
    @JollyPaps1
    Dec 27, 2024
    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
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    Dami Ajayi
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    Jun 25, 2020
    Really sad. RIP Great Thespian. His role in Kelani's Toluwanile as a landowner was a fine piece of work.
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    Punch Newspapers
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    Jun 25, 2020
    BREAKING: Veteran actor, Ogun Majek, is dead tinyurl.com/ybltc2z3
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    Dami Ajayi
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    Jan 7, 2018
    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.
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    Dami Ajayi
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    Apr 23, 2022
    Replying to @OIuwatosin
    The word schizophrenic feels somewhat derogatory in this context, but usage is definitely wrong
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    Dami Ajayi
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    Nov 8, 2023
    Tadow. ✌️
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    Dami Ajayi
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    Sep 17, 2023
    Seun Ajayi & an ex-Marlian fan.
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    Dami Ajayi
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    Jul 13, 2024
    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.
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    Dami Ajayi
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    Dec 27, 2017
    The Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Yaba has got Telephones lines. Call here 08155170000 & 09060001907. Let us make this viral for those who need it.
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    Dami Ajayi
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    Aug 23, 2023
    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.
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    49th.
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    Aug 22, 2023
    “... AfroBeats as people call it, is mostly about nothing, literally nothing. there’s no substance to it” - Burna Boy on the Afrobeats scene recently.
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    Dami Ajayi
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    Jun 10, 2018
    RIP Ras Kimono. We are still Under Pressure. Travel Well, Rastaman.
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    Dami Ajayi
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    May 15, 2023
    Davido’s Timeless brings a new depth to Afrobeats escapist ethos, especially when you realise that he recorded that fine dance album while grieving.
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    Dami Ajayi
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    Dec 4, 2024
    Wrapped was an intern’s idea. The best ideas came from unexpected places.
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    Dami Ajayi
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    Jun 14, 2024
    Replying to @UgonnaLaCadena and @carlterver
    It is that smell of Lekki, giving sewage and suya at the same time that does it for me.
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    Dami Ajayi
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    Jun 3, 2023
    A moving tribute to the recently departed ancestor, Ama Ata Aidoo. theafricareport.com/311603/we-are-… We are here: In memory of Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo
    We are here: In memory of Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo
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