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Adebayo C. Akomolafe, Ph.D.

"Just like trees, we only grow where we are the most vulnerable. Meeting ourselves and others at the edge of comfort, befriending our cracks, we allow the emergence the new."

Inaugural W. E. B. Du Bois Scholar in Residence

Bayo Akomolafe is a philosopher, psychologist, professor, and poet. He is a teacher and public intellectual renowned for his unconventional views on global crises, activism, and social change. He is executive director and chief curator for the Emergence Network and is the author of We Will Tell Our Own Story and These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter.

The Author's Voice

"The world is no longer desolate and empty and exclusive; she is now a wispy spirit, whose fingers flirt through the wind – a million roads where only one once lay. And I need not be certain about the road travelled – since I arrived the self-same moment I set out."

- Adebayo C. Akomolafe, Ph.D.

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