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March 20, 2023
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Nigeria: How to Rig an Election
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Bayo Akomolafe
The recent elections in Nigeria, conducted over anxious weeks of pain and chaos, suggest that one doesn't need complicated plots and technologies to rig an election. All you need is a people thoroughly jaded - and white paint. Lots of it.
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February 23, 2023
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Detached.
by
Bayo Akomolafe
"Get up from the couch."
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February 13, 2023
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Becoming airports
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Bayo Akomolafe
The body isn't a natural thing that serves as a substrate for cultural embellishments; the body is unnatural.
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February 8, 2023
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The public is not a simple location: A confession
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Bayo Akomolafe
The public is an apparatus that measures out the "individual" by collapsing "its" wave-like indeterminacy to the locateability of the citizen. And that's when things get sticky.
Books & Longform
During the initial weeks of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, I feverishly composed an ‘essay’. I intended to be brief, so my essay clocked 22,000 words - perhaps, then, the length of a small book. Refusing to reinscribe our fetishized human centrality in the goings-on around us,
‘I, Coronavirus’
reads as a cross between magical realism, speculative fabulation, Yoruba indigenous wisdoms, biology and neomaterialist feminist philosophy. At its heart is a playful thought experiment: beyond being a pathogen, what if the virus were an immigrant, an alien visitation, an archetypal force we’ve always known but do not know how to recognize?
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Tackling some of the world's most profound questions through the intimate lens of fatherhood, Bayo Akomolafe embarks on a journey of discovery as he maps the contours of the spaces between himself and his three-year-old daughter Alethea.These Wilds Beyond our Fences is a passionate attempt to make sense of our disconnection in a world where it is easy to feel untethered and lost. It is a father's search for meaning, for a place of belonging, and for reassurance that the world will embrace and support our children once we are gone. (North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA; 2017)
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“We Will Tell Our Own Story joins a growing number of Afrocentric books that are already revolutionizing the way Africans view themselves and their academies. The creation of a cadre of scholars devoted to truth, rigor, ancestrality, and values is a mark of a mature civilization; these authors are the necessary foundation for further growth.”
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Astray, Awkwardly: An Autistic Politics (Republished)
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Astray, Awkwardly: An Autistic Politics
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I, Coronavirus. Mother. Monster. Activist.
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The Allegory of the Pit: Or the Irony of Victory
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Finding the Dark: Decolonizing Darkness
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Homo Icarus: The Depreciating Value of Whiteness and the Place of Healing
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Father to Son
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The edges in the middle: A story about ‘We Will Dance with Mountains’
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A Slower Urgency
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An Irreverent List of Queer Resolutions for 2017
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The Scooby Doo Contingency
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On Trump: An Open Letter to the Brokenhearted
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The edges in the middle
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I am writing a book. I will not be the same.
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Shit matters: Answering the call of compost in these times of exclusions
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Name the Colour, Blind the Eye: Reimagining Education
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The dot on my forehead: how we understand the crisis is part of the crisis
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The politics of the pursuit of happiness
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Speaking in tongues (Or why the correct answer is no longer enough to solve our problems)
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Meeting the Inappropriate/d
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The trouble with equality: feminism and the forgotten places of power
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A Parliament of Things
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Do our bodies matter?
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In the Thinnest of Places: Initiation as Empowerment for Civil Action
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