Adebayo Akomolafe

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ADDED Nov 11, 2019

20 min

Making Sanctuary: Is There a Solution for Climate Change?: Bayo Akomolafe

In this talk connecting Yoruba indigenous philosophies, historical accounts of transatlantic slave crossings, new materialist/feminist insights, Bohr’s scientific theory of quantum...

ADDED Jan 16, 2018

The Surprising Nobility of Shit: a Serious Response to President Donald Trump’s ‘Shithole’ Remarks About African Immigrants

[Warning: There are some big words here. Not the best words like yours, but big words nonetheless] Bayo Akomolafe Dear President Trump, I am Nigerian, from Nigeria, a shithole...

ADDED Oct 17, 2017

Father to Son

Healing masculinity by touching its alterities

ADDED Aug 18, 2017

Homo Icarus: the Depreciating Value of Whiteness and the Place of Healing

In the wake of the Charlottesville incident, we must understand that the kind of work that needs to happen now, in order for racial healing to take place, will not be held by the...

ADDED Jul 25, 2017

How My Prejudice Redeemed Me From Believing I Was Essentially Good

The screen froze as yet another announcement crept into the cabin from the overhead speakers and through my headphones. I swore beneath my breath. For the umpteenth time, the captain...

ADDED May 14, 2017

108 min

Bayo Akomolafe: How I Am Unlearning My Whiteness

"What if our response to the crisis is part of the crisis?"- Bayo Akomolafe Bayo Akomolafe is globally recognized for his poetic, unconventional, counterintuitive take on global crisis...

ADDED Jan 5, 2017

The Edges in the Middle

Our hope for new landscapes does not lie in the center of the circle to which everyone has turned, but beyond its circumference - in the wilds beyond our fences. The mystic will always...

ADDED Jan 2, 2017

An Irreverent List of Queer Resolutions for 2017

Welcome to ‘2017’,

ADDED Nov 10, 2016

On Trump: an Open Letter to the Brokenhearted

"To those of you that care about diversity, about the environment, about the beauty of queer sexual orientations, about indigenous lands and their right to thrive, and about policing...

ADDED Nov 5, 2016

We Stood on the Rock

A poem for those that fight with the Sioux, with water, at Standing Rock.

ADDED Oct 31, 2016

God Was Here and I Did Not Know It: Intra-Thinking and the Material Immanence of Intuition

We are in an age of spillages and fundamental breaches in the borders of things. From the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, to the ‘insurgency’ of Syrian refugees, to the...

ADDED Oct 28, 2016

The Sacred Is Awkwardly Closer Than You Think

The world doesn't stop being sacred because we start to understand it - and that's mostly because understanding is not a relation of exteriority or of final approximations, but of...

ADDED Oct 24, 2016

The Burden of the New Story

The 'new story' - that longed for milieu when all is right with the world and things are set straight - seems to be taking its sweet time coming. Why?

ADDED Jun 18, 2016

4 min

Story Invitation to We will dance with Mountains (trailer)

Here's a story invitation to We will dance with Mountains [

ADDED Jun 10, 2016

An Open Letter to White People on Becoming Indigenous

Dear white people, For as long as I can remember, I have always been white. Like you. I just didn’t know it.

ADDED May 31, 2016

2 min

Turning of the Whales (trailer)

Fresh out of college, a skinny nerd with little or no social skills, my worldview heavily influenced by an Enlightenment notion of the 'human', I decided to dedicate my academic energies...

ADDED May 26, 2016

26 min

Meeting the Inappropriate/d

In October 2015, Sheridan Hookimaw, a thirteen year old First Nations girl from Attawapiskat, Canada, took her own life by a river. Hers was not the first or the last suicide. Hundreds...

ADDED May 22, 2016

The Turning of the Whales: What If We Are Not Alone? What If the 'Others' Have Been Here All Along?

When famed New Zealander psychologist, Dr Paul Spong, was first invited by the University of British Columbia to study the sensory apparatus of killer whales at the Vancouver Aquarium...

ADDED Apr 10, 2016

Bernie's Insurrection and the Question of Hillary's Qualifications

Americans don't just want a new president, they want a new precedent.

ADDED Mar 3, 2016

We Will Dance with Mountains: Writing as an Ally of Emergence

The times are urgent; let us slow down. Bayo Akomolafe calls a virtual community to gather round the prospects of a deeper revolution, a different politics of shared cultivation, as a...

ADDED Feb 19, 2016

The Trouble With Equality: Feminism and the Forgotten Places of Power

"...Patriarchy is not the rule of men over women, it's the rule of the binary - the insistence that there really are sides, and that each is a pre-existing category unto itself, fixed...

ADDED Jun 27, 2015

Love Wins

What's remarkable about the decision of SCOTUS, and its well-publicized dissensions, is how it alludes to the fault-lines now showing up in language 'itself'. A deeper paradigm shift is...

ADDED Apr 8, 2015

23 min

Bayo Akomolafe: An Oriki for the Times

Bayo Akomolafe is a researcher, lecturer and author, as well as Coordinator of the International Alliance for Localization. This is his plenary talk at the Economics of Happiness...

ADDED Nov 14, 2014

They Sang with a Thousand Tongues: The Poetry of Diversity

Let me tell you a story about how the world began. I promise you the story is not completely false.

ADDED Jun 19, 2014

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible (By Charles Eisenstein): A Review

The reader should be aware that this is not your typical review. As a world-weary academic, disillusioned by the failed promises of the ivory tower and its pretensions to inevitability...

ADDED Jun 8, 2014

7 min

The Movement for Localization Is Growing Rapidly, Worldwide

One no, many yeses. Look to join and grow the movement for localization where you live.

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