These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home
Letters to a young daughter, moving between Nigerian village life and Western academia, asking what home means for someone who belongs fully to neither world.
Written as letters to his young daughter, Akomolafe’s book moves between Nigerian village life, Western academia and post-colonial critique to ask what home could mean for someone belonging fully to neither world. Philosophy in an intimate register, sceptical of the very solutions it is expected to offer.
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Bayo Akomolafe celebrates the rewilding power of these interruptions in These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (public library).
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