Bayo Akomolafe - Climate Consciousness Summit

Bayo Akomolafe

Posthumanist Thinker | Poet | Teacher | Self-Styled ‘Trans-Public’ Intellectual | Essayist

Engaging with Troubled Realities – Allowing Loss & Grief to Weave us Together

Highlights from this session:

Bayo Akomolafe talks about the nature of the crisis we are in and that it is one of dissociation and often amplified by the way we respond to it. He introduces us to his concept of post-activism and the need for poetic interruption and archetypes like the Trickster to break patterns, boundaries and binaries and allow grief and loss to travel.

“The times are urgent; let us slow down. Slowing down is losing our way. It is following the invitation to listen deeply, to be keen, to be fresh, to follow the sights and sounds and smells of the world.”

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Bayo Akomolafe

Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.) Rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is the father to Alethea and Kyah, the grateful life-partner to EJ, son and brother. He is a widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, self-styled ‘trans-public’ intellectual, essayist, and currently the Hubert Humphrey Distinguished Professor of American Studies in Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA (August 2025).

Bayo is the host teacher at Dancing with Mountains, an educational consultation and the visionary founder of The Emergence Network, a planet-wide networking project and inquiry at the edges of the Anthropocene.

Agamemnon Otero