These Wilds Beyond our Fences
Bayo Akomolafe
About this book
Bayo Akomolafe writes to his young daughter from a post-humanist, African philosophical standpoint, questioning the linear progress narrative and inviting attention to what is wild, uncertain, and alive at the edges of the known. A poetic disruption of Western modernity.
Key themes
- Post-humanist philosophy and the limits of Western progress narratives
- Yoruba and African philosophical perspectives on uncertainty and emergence
- 'Slowing down in urgent times' as a radical activist practice
- The wild — the genuinely unknown — as a site of transformation
- Letters to a child as a form of reckoning with inherited futures
About the author
Bayo Akomolafe, PhD is a Nigerian-born philosopher, psychologist, and author. He is the chief curator of The Emergence Network and has lectured internationally on post-activism, decolonization, and the philosophy of 'slowing down in urgent times'.
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