Odunayo Ajani's Blog (WriterGrapher)

The sudden loss of one of Nigeria's revered scholar and Canadian Professor of African literature, Pius Adesanmi is painful and will be remembered in my history of people who have really left an indelible mark in the sand of time. I will remember vividly where we first met. Well it wasn't that we both sat down to talk but i was privileged to be in the same hall with him at the annual AKE Art and Book festival (2017 edition) which hosts yearly in Abeokuta, Southwest Nigeria. There  i saw him alongside several other fellows in the Nigerian Academia terrain. He was in attendance with his home-based colleague, Prof Remi Raji. During the 2017 edition of the Book festival I also met his renown book, 'Naija no dey carry last' for the very first time and was thrown aback at how this erudite scholar of letters was able to  articulate Nigeria pressing societal issues in an easy to read, plus humorous manner. Well, I wasn't surprised since he once lived here as w...

Lagos Mainland, 5:25am. It was the rooster behind my window that announced the morning. It woke me up while I was almost collecting my share of a deal from a friend. Had it been the rooster alone it would have been better, but it came alongside my disciplinarian mum’s heavy knock that almost rented my door apart. She yelled angrily at the top of her voice and on the other end of the door. “ Won’t you get up Tony? It is 8am already and you’re still there stretching and yawning on the bed. She continued. I guess you’re tempting me to go back to what I have stopped doing? Mum has warned me she will always wake me up with chilled water each time I get up late. I told her I’ve got my life to live but she wouldn’t understand. “ I don’t even know why she is always like this. I hummed seated at angle ninety of my bed with a pillow on my chest. Coming to wake one up 5:30am every day, who does that? Can’t I enjoy my sleep at least? I don’t know why she wants me to wake up the exac...

Hi friends and story lovers I will start a new story titled Finding the Real Me. It is for your reading pleasure. I will update this post as time permits me. Kindly drop your comments and let me know how you feel about the story. For the sake of emphasis, I title this one, 'Finding the real me' I want to dedicate this work to my wife, Adelola and to all literary enthusiast out there. Enjoy! #storytelling #storyteller #storytime #storyofthestreet #storyboard #Storybook #Storytellers    #storypromoter #StoryNightClub #storyboards #storyline #storyboardartist #storyoftheday #storys #storybridge #Storyclub #storyart #Findingtherealme