Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Coming Alive to Other Senses /300 — FOR THE WILD

The contemporary Nigerian philosopher Bayo Akomolafe is among those who suggest this is the case: it is in our seeking to escape the prison, he suggests, that the prison walls gain their form.95 If all we do is react to the dominant story, we reinforce its dominance. Perhaps the strategy itself – collision-course, expose-and-attack, hit-them-where-

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Yes, let’s be hopeless, but, then — if and when we can — let’s rally. Yes, let’s guilt-trip ourselves, but then, lesson in hand, let’s shake ourselves loose from our own grip and gripe. Yes, we’ll fall short as allies, but there’ll also be moments when we will feel our solidarity — know it in our bones — not just as a duty or an abstract idea, but

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Navigating the space between stories puts us up for an immense challenge. We must seek the others to find hope and support when that which we love falls away, rediscover how to grieve for what we lose and praise what is lost, and learn how to remain alive in the face of death. To not resist being wholly taken by awe at the birth of spring, because ... See more