Falling might very well be flying–without the tyranny of coordinates. -Bayo Akomolafe
On Sunday March 17 from 6:30 -8:45pm, please join our Community Partner Montez Horne from Closer for Fine Farms in welcoming post-activist philosopher and writer Bayo Akomolafe to the Santa Cruz County Resource Center for Non-Violence located at 612 Ocean St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060.
In 2014, Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.) was invited to be the Special Envoy of the International Alliance for Localization, a project of Ancient Futures (USA). He left his lecturing position in Covenant University, Nigeria to help build this Alliance. Bayo has been Visiting Professor at Middlebury College, has taught at Sonoma State University (CA, USA), Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada), and Schumacher College (Totnes, England) – among other universities around the world. He currently lectures at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California and University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. He sits on the Board of many organizations including Science and Non-Duality, Unashay Sanctuary, and more.
The convener of the concepts of ‘postactivism’, ‘transraciality’ and ‘ontofugitivity’, Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is a widely celebrated international speaker, teacher, public intellectual, essayist and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak.
