1.) How would you describe your hometown or home country to a friend who wants to visit there, but couldn't because it's war-torn?
2.) Describe the little things; the smells of the marketplace, the feeling of Sunday mornings at home, the food that your aunties make when it's someone's birthday, what's your favorite dish at a wedding?
3.) How do you feel when your captors or colonizer tries speaking to you in their evil language when yours is in poetry? How do you keep the poetry and music amongst evil?
4.) Who do you think you would be if you were not a product of diaspora? What kind of person would you have been? Do you think you're a completely different or even an opposite version of yourself?
5.) Write a poem about a childhood snack or treat from home
6.) How would you describe the feeling of belongingness back home to somebody who wants to experience the warmth and hospitality of your culture?
7.) Write a short song dedicated to your comfort food or favorite rainy day food from home
8.) Write a letter addressed to the version of yourself who has never heard of missiles, never seen bloodshed, never had to run and leave home, have no knowledge of what drones are, and whose version of you never experienced the apartheid.