317) Bayo Akomolafe: Slowing down and surrendering human supremacy
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
What does it mean that we have a crisis in form—that our problems go deeper than the visible systems we often attribute them to? What might we gain from surrendering human control and centrality, slowing down even as we feel increasing urgency to address social injustice and climate change?
In this episode, we're joined by Dr. Bayo Akomolafe. Rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, Bayo is the father to Alethea and Kyah, the grateful life-partner to Ije, son and brother. A widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak, Bayo Akomolafe is the Chief Curator of The Emergence Network and host of the online postactivist course, ‘We Will dance with Mountains’.
The musical offering in this episode is I'm Not a Mountain by Sarah Kinsley.
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| 1:50.1 | Oh, the times are urgent, let us slow down. |
| 1:53.6 | Slowing down is losing our way. |
| 1:58.0 | Losing our way is not a human capacity or human capability. |
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