
Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Slowing Down in Urgent Times /155
For The Wild
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Slowness, Destroy and Surrender
"We are spurred to action by catastrophe and crisis," she says. "Slowing down has been interpreted as basically doing what we're doing but at slower speed" The Yoruba people call it Doballe, which means 'to be perfectly still in the face of the storm' A man literally falls flat on the ground and is still until the elder says rise. For the ladies it's called Ikune - a lady bends her knees a bit and rises briefly.
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