Sublime

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,

Epistemicide is at the heart of colonization, but we cannot decolonize our minds by unknowing modernity. Like it or not, your belonging is dependent on a reclamation of the dismissed ancient and a reconciliation with the dominant modern.

I’m trying to meander toward is seeing the goodness of what Laura Lundgren calls being a “village poet.”68 A village poet views success as faithfully serving a small number of readers with our words, not as a resignation to the state of affairs but as a goal.