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Oct 19, 2019
4 min

The Politics of Storytelling

Now suppose I’ve managed to convince you perhaps that yes, we control the world because we can cooperate flexibly in large numbers. The n...

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Epifania Amoo-Adare

Sep 25, 2019
9 min

Who Rules the Waves?

“The future is not good at all” - Papa Panyin I want to share a little of what has been proving to be rather troubled reflections on the ...

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Epifania Amoo-Adare

Mar 11, 2019
4 min

Migration Blues

“Je préfère mourir sur la mer que de voir ma mère pleurer (I prefer to die at sea than see my mother cry)”. —a contemporary Ivorian sayin...

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Epifania Amoo-Adare

Sep 22, 2018
8 min

The Follies of Nationalism

“I try to make myself small so they leave me alone, Sometimes, I get depressed and I stay at home. Some say that we’re making too big of ...

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Epifania Amoo-Adare

May 30, 2018
1 min

Un-Disciplined Love of Knowledge(s)

I refuse to be disciplined, you know what I mean: fixing myself in nitpicky niches of sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and al...

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Epifania Amoo-Adare

Feb 6, 2018
4 min

Why, Do I Stutter?

Today I find myself reflecting on some notes that I scribbled down, six years ago, in a rage about my “invisibility blues”, to coin an im...

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Epifania Amoo-Adare

Oct 12, 2016
2 min

Manifesto for Living (RIGHT?)

REALITY CHECK. Always know that what you see and do is not real, in the sense that it is in fact a social construct. This means, there ca...

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Epifania Amoo-Adare

May 14, 2016
1 min

(Un)Learning

Learning is not something that happens in parenthesis; something you bookend between your head, four walls, a class period, a school year...

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Epifania Amoo-Adare

Jul 6, 2013
2 min

Creating Space for Inner Peace

It is that time of year again: when most of us get an opportunity to stop and reflect on how mindful we have been to date, especially in ...

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Epifania Amoo-Adare

Apr 14, 2013
2 min

Living in a STEM World

Only the other day, I was telling a friend that we are now living in a STEM-gone-wild world. By this I refer to the current obsession, pa...

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Epifania Amoo-Adare

Mar 19, 2013
2 min

Failing Planet Earth

I was thinking the other day that as we all race towards this thing called progress, we appear to be leaving many of our human values beh...

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Epifania Amoo-Adare

Nov 16, 2012
3 min

The Geography of Food

Food, through its production to consumption, gives us multiple opportunities to contemplate on space. By this I refer to the geography of...

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