At Villanova, Africana Studies is the intellectual space in which Maya Angelou speaks from her own work, or references the Roman literary great, Terence Afer - Terence the African. Here, Toni Morrison invites us to literally "play in the dark" spaces of America's intellectual terrain. Within an intellectual context cultivated by Africana Studies, Cornel West, Lucius Outlaw, Sonia Sanchez, Toni Cade Bambara, James Cone, Albert Rabateau, Houston Baker, Mantia Diawara, Molefe Asante, Shelley Fisher Fiskin, Michael Eric Dyson and many more brilliant minds converge at Villanova to share with this community. Yet, the best of all this is a permanent and dynamic faculty dedicated to the Africana Studies Program who day in and day out, semester after semester, year after year, take their students on the intellectual excursions that seek Africa's gifts, that explore Africa's "newness" wherever it may be found. With this faculty, in the intellectual community of the Africana Studies Program, we come to realize at every evocation of Augustine that we can enter not just African space, but the conceptual space of Africana Studies and the ways in which Africa and peoples of African descent have impacted our lives in both the historical and contemporary senses.