Writing & Creative Work

Alongside my scientific work, I write poetry and personal essays about memory, identity, grief, love, and Nigerian life.

Collected here are my debut chapbook, selected essays, poems published across literary platforms, and an audio performance.

Book · Personal essays · Poetry · Audio

The Cartographer of Memory

My debut poetry chapbook explores memory, grief, identity, and Nigerian life.

Find the book →

Personal Essays

Notes on Growing Older

A sequence of personal reflections written around my birthdays.

• Notes on 32
• Chapter 31: The Times, They Are A-Changin’
• 30
• 29
• 28

Other Personal Essays

• Because Everything was being Swallowed by Memory
• IFÈ
• A Curation of Randomness

Selected Poetry

• 25 Notes on Becoming
  adda.

• A Game of Numbers
  Saraba Magazine.

• Healing is a Woman
  Arts and Africa.

• A Concerto for Four Nerves
  Dami Ajayi’s website · Archived page.

• Dehiscence and other Poems
  The Kalahari Review.

• Upon Conversing with Adonai on Mount Sathurai
  Nigerian NewsDirect · Archived page.

• Reasons Why We Write
  ktravula.

• Introspection and a Song of Colours
  African Writer.

• Grief is a Thing with Feathers
  The Muse.

• To Love is to Die
  YNaija.

• A Tuesday Poem
  Dami Ajayi’s website · Archived page.

Audio

Initiation

Listen on SoundCloud →

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