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The sankofa symbol. Sankofa (pronounced SAHN-koh-fah) is a word in the Twi language of Ghana meaning “to retrieve" (literally "go back and get"; san - to return; ko - to go; fa - to fetch, to seek and take) and also refers to the Bono Adinkra symbol represented either with a stylized heart shape or by a bird with its head turned backwards while its feet face forward carrying a precious egg ...
The symbol of heroic deeds and accomplishing the impossible, but being quiet about it 96 Sankofa: turn back and fetch it 97 Sankofa: turn back and fetch it 98 Sepow: a knife thrust through the cheeks of a man the man is about to be executed to prevent his invoking of a curse on the king
The Sankofa Bird is a mythical African bird that is pictured facing forward with its head turned backwards with an egg in its mouth. It represents the concept of "go back and fetch it." Columnist ...
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Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.
Blade of an afenatene sword showing the akoma (heart), denkyem (crocodile), akuma (axe) and the sankofa bird. [8] The Ashanti national symbol Akrafena description: The Akrafena is a prominent symbol of the Ashantis in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries into the 21st century;
The $100-million, 1.3-mile public art corridor known as Destination Crenshaw — with fundraising led by Issa Rae and DeMar DeRozan — will debut its first phase, Sankofa Park, this fall.
As of Unicode version 16.0, there are 155,063 characters with code points, covering 168 modern and historical scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets. This article includes the 1,062 characters in the Multilingual European Character Set 2 subset, and some additional related characters.