Lift Off Episode 8 – Bayo Akomolafe

Poet. Philosopher. Psychologist. Professor. Passionate about the Preposterous. We speak with Bayo about his invitation to slow down, to make sanctuary, not to rush into finding solutions. To come down to earth and explore together. Away from the visibility trap, being ready to welcome the tricksters. Bayo Akomolafe (PhD) changes diapers, loves ghee dosas with coconut chutney, and is ecstatically in love with his 6 year old daughter, Alethea, and 2 year old son, Kyah. He is the grateful life-partner of Ijeoma, author of These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to my Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books, 2017), and Chief Curator of The Emergence Network, a postactivism project concerned with responsiveness in precarious times.

Lift Off is a series of dialogues, hosted from Michelberger’s courtyard in Berlin. We engage in discussions with people who offer an outlook, a way forward, by example and by knowledge. People who are reflective, confident and clear. Who are ready, have practices, ideas and solutions, ready to shape what comes next. Connecting and bridging people that offer lighthouses to their communities and beyond.

Hosting today: Solène Wolff & Tom Michelberger

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