Toluwalogo Ajayi is a Nigeria

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 and writer of fiction

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. Born in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, Ajayi was educated in Nigeria and the United Kingdom

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; in the latter country, he qualified in 1970 as a physician

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 at the University of Liverpool

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 Medical School. He also specialized in psychiatry

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 at Memorial University in Newfoundland

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, Canada

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.

Most of Ajayi's novels and stories

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 draw on his medical experience.

Works by Tolu Ajayi:

• The Year (London: Macmillan, 1981) ISBN 0333352807
• The Lesson (Lagos, Nigeria: Granny Fatima, 1985)
• The Ghost of a Millionaire (Heinemann Educational Books Nigeria, 1990) ISBN 9781291745
• Eyes of the Night (Lagos, Nigeria: Granny Fatima, 1991) (short story collection with his 1990 BBC World Service
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   winning story "Family Planning")
• Images of Lives: Poems for Everyone (Lagos, Nigeria: Granny Fatima, 1991) poetry
  Poetry
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  collection
• Motions and Emotions: Fumes of Poetic Feelings (Lagos, Nigeria: Granny Fatima, 1993) poetry collection
• After A Bad Moon: a Sh-to-vel (Lagos, Nigeria : Granny Fatima, 1995) ISBN 9783320912 story collection