The collages below explore themes in several texts explored over the course AfroFuturism and the Speculative: New Tools for A New World, including:
Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman - Malidoma Patrice Somé
Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler
"Audre Lorde said, “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”
- Exerpt from Syllabus
![Collage based on themes from Octavia E. Butler's "Parable of the Sower"](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/9b74c329df16b8bc81b5a13841430b0d/cf69b5e5-fe13-481c-bf76-a82075fcbd20_rw_3840.png?h=ff3f49a11adbb15034dad26d973ee4f7)
Collage based on themes from Octavia E. Butler's "Parable of the Sower"
![Collage based on themes from Octavia E. Butler's "Parable of the Sower"](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/9b74c329df16b8bc81b5a13841430b0d/71176148-2515-46f8-b45b-dcebc2b99960_rw_3840.png?h=fce258071931011df5e5e20a3e34a3fc)
Collage based on themes from Octavia E. Butler's "Parable of the Sower"
![Collage based on themes from Octavia E. Butler's "Parable of the Sower"](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/9b74c329df16b8bc81b5a13841430b0d/21acb820-3edc-46a3-b5a6-66b09e1995f4_rw_1920.png?h=19e6a4927842df2459963e5a784de4c0)
Collage based on themes from Octavia E. Butler's "Parable of the Sower"
![Collage based on themes found in "Of Water and the Spirit", by Malidoma Patrice Somé](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/9b74c329df16b8bc81b5a13841430b0d/b821ef1b-a6b6-441d-92d5-45ec3ea1b13b_rw_3840.png?h=29f72438359ff87d5ebd48b86dbfae76)
Collage based on themes found in "Of Water and the Spirit", by Malidoma Patrice Somé
![Collage based on themes found in "Of Water and the Spirit", by Malidoma Patrice Somé](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/9b74c329df16b8bc81b5a13841430b0d/5e150d95-3358-4d12-a4a9-c3f156238f7c_rw_3840.png?h=5933e066226d7e7a0d4fe76748039072)
Collage based on themes found in "Of Water and the Spirit", by Malidoma Patrice Somé
![Community vs Individualism](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/9b74c329df16b8bc81b5a13841430b0d/2a2c758b-f020-43cc-8c14-1e426e0f39e2_rw_3840.png?h=3bcf9ff7b9db5c476bdf616b2c20142c)
Community vs Individualism
![The Carnegie Mellon Experience](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/9b74c329df16b8bc81b5a13841430b0d/9b690392-31fa-4e0c-b610-68c034628a1a_rw_3840.jpg?h=f164ac6d8ad24101af646b39bb40b8a1)