Thinking outside the box • Writings – Bayo Akomolafe

The contemporary Nigerian philosopher Bayo Akomolafe is among those who suggest this is the case: it is in our seeking to escape the prison, he suggests, that the prison walls gain their form.95 If all we do is react to the dominant story, we reinforce its dominance. Perhaps the strategy itself – collision-course, expose-and-attack, hit-them-where-

with imagination, the things that currently look like intractable problems are actually huge opportunities for new thinking.