Answer these questions as simply as you can.
(2) What made you interested in taking Intro to Africana Studies?
(3) What are some of your expectations for the class?
(4) What are two strengths you bring to our beloved community? (For example, you might refer to your ability to be open to diverse perspectives and worldviews or your involvement in promoting social justice issues.)
(5) We are having a special gift offering for our Intro to Africana Studies course. That is, a gift offering that will assist us on our learning journey of sankofa that will nourish our hearts-minds-emotions-spirits. So, what two gift offerings (symbolic gifts) will you bring and why to enhance our interaction with the material in the field of Africana Studies while building community with each other? (For example, some gifts may be a flower of unique beauty so we recognize the unique beauty of each other or a quilt of understanding that we can cover ourselves with to remind us to practice deep listening.) If you would like, you can also paste a visual image of your gift offering into your post.
(6) How does Keating’s “Dialogue: Some of My Presuppositions” and “Listening with Raw Openness” relate to some of our course objectives for Intro to Africana Studies?
(7) Which of Keating’s presuppositions do you find most useful?
(8) How do you think your group name and our Ubuntu Code of Ethics will influence our dialogue together?


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