Eshu

Eshu appears in Bayo Akomolafe: The Untimely as the Yoruba trickster figure of the crossroads. Bayo Akomolafe links Eshu with Idowu and uses the figure to think about decolonization from within the ship, the clock, and the world that is already upsetting people.

In the source, Eshu matters because he resists a pure outside. Rather than defeat modern time by building a separate world on schedule, the trickster names the instability, mischief, and incompleteness already inside Modern Time Discipline.

Connections

• Bayo Akomolafe - speaker using the figure philosophically.
• Yoruba Twin Cosmology and The Untimely - mythic and conceptual contexts.
• Fugitive Temporality and Colonial Temporal Discipline - political frame for decolonization from within.