Articles by Bayo Akomolafe
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[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...
Adebayo Akomolafe · 22,051 views
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Healing masculinity by touching its alterities
Adebayo Akomolafe · 555 views
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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...
Adebayo Akomolafe · 797 views
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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...
Adebayo Akomolafe · 1,332 views
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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...
Adebayo Akomolafe · 2,803 views
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Welcome to ‘2017’,
Adebayo Akomolafe · 7,704 views
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"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...
Adebayo Akomolafe · 18,569 views
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A poem for those that fight with the Sioux, with water, at Standing Rock.
Adebayo Akomolafe · 3,735 views
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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...
Adebayo Akomolafe · 472 views
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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...
Adebayo Akomolafe · 705 views
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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?
Adebayo Akomolafe · 10,262 views
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It was something I heard one dissident professor say when I was an undergraduate studying psychology in a Nigerian university. He didn’t quite say it; he whispered it. When the white men...
Bayo Akomolafe · 929 views
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Dear white people, For as long as I can remember, I have always been white. Like you. I just didn’t know it.
Bayo Akomolafe · 64,604 views
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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...
Adebayo Akomolafe · 27,686 views
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Americans don't just want a new president, they want a new precedent.
Adebayo Akomolafe · 1,900 views
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How We Are Collectively Improvising a 'New Story' About Learning
Bayo Akomolafe and Manish Jain · 3,468 views
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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...
Adebayo Akomolafe · 869 views
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"...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...
Adebayo Akomolafe · 16,525 views
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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...
Adebayo Akomolafe · 365 views
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Let me tell you a story about how the world began. I promise you the story is not completely false.
Adebayo Akomolafe · 2,400 views
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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...
Adebayo Akomolafe · 3,057 views
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