Octavia butler radio imagination12/12/2023 ![]() When Butler speaks of Change through the words of Lauren Oya Olamina she implies Ashé. He writes: ‘In African American culture is more implicit than explicit’“ ( Lindsay Rowland). African American secular and sacred spaces. Lindsay makes direct connection between the Yoruba belief system and its pervasiveness in our world, citing the work of Sheila Walker who “asserted that Yoruba cultures so greatly impacted other enslaved Africans and their descendants that the result has been a virtual Yoruba-ization of the African Diaspora.” Further, says Lindsay, “Yoruba art historian and theoretician Rowland Abiodun confirms Walker’s hypothesis in his article “African Aesthetics” identifying the presence of ashé in U.S. Yoruba aesthetics is inextricably linked to the divine” ( Lindsay). The Yoruba are a loosely identified ethnic group in West Africa that share a common worldview and language. At the 2014 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on the Black Aesthetic, artist-scholar Arturo Lindsay defined Ashé as being “a concept that is seminal to the Yoruba belief system grounded in the principle that all things -animate and inanimate-are vested with a life force. It is the invisible potential that moves us to move. ![]() Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993)Įarthseed: The Books of the Living ( Butler Parable of the Sower)Ĭhange is God, according to Lauren Oya Olamina, the protagonist in Octavia Estelle Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993). ![]()
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