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Let’s Meet at the Crossroads
Let’s Meet at the Crossroads Commencement Keynote Address to Pacifica Graduate Inst...
It’s time: Let us make sanctuary
It’s time: Let us make sanctuary Bayo Akomolafe, PhD  I am very excited to share ...
I, Coronavirus. Mother. Monster. Activist.
I, Coronavirus. Mother. Monster. Activist. Bayo Akomolafe [Day 27 | Year Zero ADc*] *...
Out of the Ashes
Out of the Ashes Riel Miller UNESCO Editor’s Note: Dr. Riel Miller is currently the...
Coming Down to Earth: Sanctuary as Spiritual Companionship in a Time of Hopelessness and Climate Chaos
Coming Down to Earth: Sanctuary as Spiritual Companionship in a Time of Hopelessness ...
Grounding VUNJA: Fieldnotes from my Journey to the Old ‘New World’ (A Series)
Grounding VUNJA: Fieldnotes from my Journey to the Old ‘New World’ Day 1 in Rio d...
The Allegory of the Pit: Or the Irony of Victory
The Allegory of the Pit: Or the Irony of Victory Bayo Akomolafe Exiting Platoâ...
The Death of the Climate Activist
The Death of the Climate Activist (Published in “Performative Materiality”...
In the morning, you won’t find me here: A meditation in Blackness
In the morning, you won’t find me here A MEDITATION IN BLACKNESS I am a black m...
The task is not to abandon identity politics. The task is to free it to become something stranger.
The task is not to abandon identity politics. The task is to free it to become someth...
What Climate Collapse Asks of Us
What climate collapse asks of us In this (very, very) long essay, Bayo Akomola...
Hum the Apple
HUM THE APPLE: A Short Story Long ago – actually, so far back into the dista...
Making Sanctuary: Hope, Companionship, Race and Emergence in the Anthropocene
Making Sanctuary: Hope, Companionship, Race and Emergence in the Anthropocene Keynote...
Coming into the Sanctuary
Coming into the Sanctuary Bayo Akomolafe In the part of the world where I grew...
How ‘the Real’ is more fascinating than we can think: A meditation on Aquaman, science and the alchemy of imagination
How the Real is more fascinating than we can think: A meditation on Aquaman, science ...
[Bayo Akomolafe speaks in Brazil] ColaborAmerica 2018
Let us slow down: Acting in turbulent times Bayo Akomolafe ColaborAmerica [Dr. Akomol...
Yesterday, Alethea created the universe
Yesterday, Alethea created the universe. She took an old carton box, and perforated i...
Grieving is how flowers bloom: an invitation
Before you read any further, I invite you to take a moment to watch this clip from Na...
To be a proper self is to be beside oneself
To be a proper self is to be beside oneself The term ‘possession’ still conjures ...
On thinking out the box
On thinking out the box While speaking at the recent Africa Innovation Summit ...
These Wilds Beyond our Fences
These wilds beyond our fences Speech by Bayo Akomolafe at the Unitarian Universalist ...
Our Broken Compass: Unlearning Education as Schooling in a World Gone Awry
Our Broken Compass: Unlearning Education as Schooling in a World Gone Awry by Ijeoma ...
Shootings in America: A Letter to New Questions
Shootings in America: A Letter to New Questions Bayo Akomolafe (The Emergence Network...
The Surprising Nobility of Shit: A Serious Response to President Donald Trump’s ‘Shithole’ Remarks about African Immigrants
The Surprising Nobility of Shit: A Serious Response to President Donald Trump’s ‘...
On turning the left cheek and contentment
2017: On turning the left cheek and contentment  Through this year, my explorations...
Our shock will not absolve us
Our shock will not absolve us: A letter to my son about the Libyan Slave Markets &nbs...
Humusities: A Short Description
HUMUSITIES: A SHORT DESCRIPTION Humusities.online is an upcoming envisioned communit...
Podcast: Unraveling Whiteness: Reckoning with Ghosts (Interview with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe on ‘Last Born in the Wilderness’)
Finding the Dark: Decolonizing Darkness
Finding the Dark: Decolonizing Darkness Excerpt from ‘These Wilds Beyond our Fences...
I want my skin to breathe: ‘Transraciality’ as a Crossroads Notion of Race and Racial Justice
I want my skin to breathe: ‘Transraciality’ as a Crossroads Notion of Rac...
How do we respond to crisis?
How do we respond to crisis? [A We Will Dance with Mountains III Note] “…I don...
Father to Son
Father to Son Tonight, I hold your little head against my flat chest. I am dan...
A Slower Urgency: We Will Dance with Mountains
A SLOWER URGENCY: WE WILL DANCE WITH MOUNTAINS I learned, a long time ago, about a pa...
Homo Icarus: The Depreciating Value of Whiteness and the Place of Healing
Homo Icarus: The Depreciating Value of Whiteness and the Place of Healing Bayo Akomol...
The edges in the middle: A story about ‘We Will Dance with Mountains’
The edges in the middle: A story about ‘We Will Dance with Mountains’ Where I com...
How my prejudice redeemed me from believing I was essentially good
How my prejudice redeemed me from believing I was essentially good Bayo Akomolafe &nb...
Release the Kraken! Why we need monsters in these times of crises
Release the Kraken! Why we need monsters in these times of crises Featured Piece for ...
Entangled with the World
Entangled with the World Bayo Akomolafe [For Kosmos Journal] The fire hissed s...
The ordinary is what the extraordinary wants to become
The ordinary is what the extraordinary wants to become One of the new preoccupations ...
The edges in the middle
The edges in the middle Bayo Akomolafe In many non-western indigenous settings...
An Irreverent List of Queer Resolutions for 2017
“Bewitched Park” – Painting by Leonid Afremov. https://afremov.com/...
The Scooby Doo Contingency: The left’s present post-Trump election ‘whodunnit’ craze
Russia did it. Putin is the secret boogeyman. It’s fake news. It’s Podest...
On Trump: An Open Letter to the Brokenhearted
On Trump: An Open Letter to the Brokenhearted Bayo Akomolafe Coordinating Curator, th...
We stood on the rock
[For those who fight at Standing Rock] We stood on the rock We remember...
God was here and I did not know it: Intra-thinking and the material immanence of intuition
God was here and I did not know it: Intra-thinking and the material immanence of intu...
The Burden of the New Story
The Burden of the New Story Bayo Akomolafe The ocean never reaches the shore. ...
A miracle is…
A Red Sea torn apart, only to collapse again on barbaric slave masters; a mountain ra...
Shit matters: Answering the call of compost in these times of exclusions
Shit matters: Answering the call of compost in these times of exclusions Keynote Spee...
I am writing a book. I will not be the same.
I am writing a book. I will not be the same. Dear Friends…Gestating Citizens of...
Pagan insurgencies and com-post humusities: Re-visioning the commons as ‘commoning’ in a more-than-human world
Pagan insurgencies and com-post humusities: Re-visioning the commons as ‘commoningâ...
We have met the monster, and it is us.
We have met the monster, and it is us. “What shines brighter than a star? A f...
Alethea’s Lesson: Queer Homecomings and the Quest for Community
Alethea’s Lesson: Queer Homecomings and the Quest for Community Bayo Akomolafe [Pub...
The Politics of Pokémon Go
The Politics of Pokémon Go Pokémon Go is not just a game; it’s a vote of no confi...
Name the Colour, Blind the Eye: Reimagining Education
Name the Colour, Blind the Eye: Reimagining Education Bayo Akomolafe and Manish Jain ...
Killing Harambe, or how monsters are made
Killing Harambe, or how monsters are made [Published in German with Evolve Magazin as...
Dear White People
Dear white people, For as long as I can remember, I have always been white. Like you....
Leadership as gift
Leadership as gift Leading is not about taking unilateral action – leading is not e...
The Turning of the Whales
The Turning of the Whales When famed New Zealander psychologist, Dr Paul Spong...
When I told my students to dance naked on a Vancouver street
When I told my students to dance naked on a Vancouver street About two weeks ago, I l...
Meeting the Inappropriate/d – The Liminality of Justice and Reconciliation in Canada
Meeting the Inappropriate/d – The Liminality of Justice and Reconciliation in Canad...
Bernie’s insurrection and the question of Hillary’s qualifications
Bernie’s insurrection and the question of Hillary’s qualifications ...
A plea for magic
A plea for magic [Chapter in ‘In praise of scaling down’, edited by Manis...
The dot on my forehead: how we understand the crisis is part of the crisis
The dot on my forehead: how we understand the crisis is part of the crisis Bayo Akomo...
How I’m learning to trust in my failure (or why ‘We will dance with mountains’ is no longer happening on March 19)
How I’m learning to trust in my failure (or why ‘We will dance with mountains’ ...
The politics of the pursuit of happiness
The politics of the pursuit of happiness Bayo Akomolafe Silhouetted by an iridescent ...
Speaking in tongues: (Or why the correct answer is no longer enough to solve our problems)
Speaking in tongues: (Or why the correct answer is no longer enough to solve our prob...
The trouble with equality: feminism and the forgotten places of power
The trouble with equality: feminism and the forgotten places of power Bayo Akomolafe ...
To our ‘Dadas’
by Ijeoma ‘Ej’ Clement-Akomolafe I recently read an article on the Huffin...
Prologue for ‘The Parrot’s Training’ by Manish Jain
“The words of humans fill me with fear. They name all the things with articulat...
Was würde ein Berg tun? Aktivismus in einem Zeitalter der Verflechtung (German translation of ‘What would a Mountain do?’)
Was würde ein Berg tun? Aktivismus in einem Zeitalter der Verflechtung Bayo Akomolaf...
What would a Mountain do? Activism in an Age of Entanglement
What would a Mountain do? Activism in an Age of Entanglement Bayo Akomolafe ...
This revolution will not be schooled: How we are collectively improvising a ‘new story’ about learning
This revolution will not be schooled: How we are collectively improvising a ‘new s...
Do our bodies matter? Revisiting health as entanglement with the nonhuman world
When 193 nations ratified the sustainable development goals (SDGs) at the recently co...
A Parliament of Things
What is that thin place that exists between words? Rumours of which are heard in a lo...
They sang with a thousand tongues: The poetry of diversity
Speech at Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis (The Launch of the International Allianc...
The Phantoms of the Maze
Here’s a short story that echoes our contemporary quests for solutions, for fin...
Review of The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible
Review of The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible authored by Charles Ei...
The World Alethea Dreamed of: The Deep Shift We Need for a New Planetary Future
This stirring keynote address was given by Bayo Akomolafe at the EU-DEEEP/CIVICUS/GCA...
In the Thinnest of Places: Initiation as Empowerment for Civil
Article written for SGI Quarterly April 2015
An OrÃkì for Our Time: Reflections on Activism, Change and Wonder
‘An OrÃkì for Our Time: Reflections on Activism, Change and Wonder’
A plenary t...
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Keynote Address at the 2nd Edition of the DEEEP Global Summit:
Towards a World Citize...
The Trees Still Speak
The Trees Still Speak: The Collective Intelligence of the Natural World
The Promise of Promethean Darkness
How a ‘New’ Politics of Astonishment is Weaving a Global Alliance for th...
The Natural Life Cycle of Faith
In the beginning, he somewhat leaps at you – seemingly out of nowhere. With a dista...
The Times are Urgent: Let’s Slow Down
An Open Letter to CONCORD-DEEEP, CIVICUS, GCAP, Civic Society Organizations and Activ...
You are not a ‘self’
One of the stickiest misconceptions endemic to the modern condition is the notion of ...
I am Madiba
A Rebel reflects on Otherness and the Meaning of Mandela Weeks ago, I arrived Johanne...
There are no slums in India
A Speech given to ThoughtWorks India (Chennai)
July 26, 2013
How I Lost My Way
A while ago, I realized with some surprise that I never experienced the anger, rebell...
Nigeria: The Poison is the Pot
We invented the modern ethics of philanthropy and poverty eradication to escape the n...
Turning to the Wilds
We’ve gotten so used to the convenient, routine, knee-jerk answers provided for...
The Cinema House Effect
I recently exercised my reality-alchemist prowess by creating a phrase to describe a ...
We Will Tell Our Stories
Bayo Akomolafe of Nigeria delivered this talk at the 2013 Economics of Happiness Conf...
Those Bonfires of Taboo
One of the most persistent triumphs of our modern way of life is the fostered impress...
The Impeded Stream is the One that Sings
The Impeded Stream is the One that Sings Swapathgami
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