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Dami Ajayi

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Should there be a health warning on the bitters that promise to enhance male sexual performance?
The link between the masculine ego and male erection is well known. What is less known is that pursuing sexual performance at all costs might be...
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Lagos-based poet and mental health specialist Dami Ajayi writes about Yaba Left and the journey of a disused railway building from being an asylum in the...
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This is Africa

Dami Ajayi

Stories By Dami Ajayi

Should there be a health warning on the bitters that promise to enhance male sexual performance?

Mental Illness: The Way We See It

Afropolitan Vibes: The Lagos Jump

“An Accomplice to Injustice”: Pan-African Voices Blasts AU Commission for “Betraying” Democratic Ideals

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