Grace and peace from Nkechi (Igbo name meaning God’s Own). I am a Professor of Mathematics, an Ethno-mathematician, a Mathematics Story-teller, a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow, an Interfaith Chaplain and a Global African Woman of Distinction in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). “In the Gbari tradition the circle is highly symbolic. If the people accept you in their circle you are considered a friend and if they keep you out of it you are considered foe” – From my Carnegie Fellowship Project. Welcome to my Gbari circle of OpenLab friendship. I am looking forward to creating open course content that will facilitate the teaching, learning and curriculum development related to mathematics literacy and quantitative reasoning from an ethno-mathematics and gender equity perspective. You can get to my course site for Mat 161.5: Mathematics Literacy and Quantitative Reasoning by clicking on the link: https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/members/nagwubmcc-cuny-edu/groups/?group_type=course. Right now, I am re-reading my epic autobiography that earned me recognition as a Black Hero of Mathematics by the five major British mathematics societies, “God’s Own: The Genesis of Mathematical Story-telling” by Nma (Beautiful) Jacob for ways to build upon it in writing the second series. I love to create Ndebele dolls and teach about the mathematical artform of Ndebele doll sculpturing. So I have uploaded a picture of myself with seven Ndebele dolls created by students in a Discrete Mathematics course I taught at BMCC. The Ndebele people are found in the Southern part of Africa and their life style is highly mathematical. Yet you will hardly learn about their indigenous mathematical knowledge systems in books that teach concepts in mathematics. Thanks to the OpenLab team for selecting me to participate in this project and to all the members of this community for empowering me in the development of my OpenLab Mat 161.5 course site. Remain blessed – Nkechi
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