These Wilds Beyond Our Fences

Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home

By: Bayo Akomolafe, Charles Eisenstein - introduction

Narrated by: Bayo Akomolafe

Tackling some of the world’s most profound questions through the intimate lens of fatherhood, Bayo Akomolafe embarks on a journey of discovery as he maps the contours of the spaces between himself and his three-year-old daughter, Alethea. In a narrative that manages to be both intricate and unguarded, he discovers that something as commonplace as becoming a father is a cosmic event of unprecedented proportions. Using this realization as a touchstone, he is led to consider the strangeness of his own soul, contemplate the myths and rituals of modernity, ask questions about food and justice, ponder what it means to be human, evaluate what we can do about climate change, and wonder what our collective yearnings for a better world tell us about ourselves. These Wilds Beyond Our Fences is a passionate attempt to make sense of our disconnection in a world where it is easy to feel untethered and lost. It is a father’s search for meaning, for a place of belonging, and for reassurance that the world will embrace and support our children once we are gone.

Co-Becoming

One we must return to again and again. Beautifully written and wonderfully caring. Thank you

Brilliant stories, and insights

Bayo’s Book is inspiring, it is well worth listening to as it evokes the challenges and possibilities of these times.

A Gift

The author not only gifts his daughter these beautiful letters about him, his upbringing, how he met her mother and so many aspects of his life, he gifts us the reader with these things as well. He also makes the future not seem so bleak when he encourages her and us all to lean into the questions and to not be so quick to find an answer because we sometimes end up missing the journey. Such a beautiful treat that I will recommend to others who feel anxious by these uncertain times.

The big and yet undefinable picture presented here is well worth ongoing exploration. I thank Bayo for his work.

I gave the performance a 4 because the reading, although voiced beautifully, is glitchy here and there.