BAYO AKOMOLAFE: The times are urgent, let’s slow down and become a fugitive

This week’s guest will “shock you into noticing the world differently.” 

The glorious Bayo Akomolafe is a Nigerian-born Yoruba poet, author and teacher at universities and institutions across the UK, the US, Canada and India. He has also won the 2021 New Thought Walden Award which honours empowering spiritual ideas and philosophies that change lives and make our planet a better place. Bayo uses “trickster philosophy” and intense metaphors to present truly wild – but intuitively sound - ways to cope with the complex, existential challenges that we face.

This is a madly challenging conversation and we touch on relaxing into our entanglement with the world, and how to be a fugitive. Bayo invites us to abandon "solutionism" and to ask different questions: What is climate collapse asking of us? What if the way we’re responding to the crisis is part of the crisis? What if the “answer” is to join the chaos and give in to nature?

Bayo is a sage for our times and I truly encourage everyone to experience his wild mind and words…and to learn how to become a fugitive!

You can connect with Bayo via his website and Twitter 

Here is the poem I ask Bayo to read out 

And here is the essay What Climate Collapse Asks of Us 

He references Ursula K Le Guin’s book The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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