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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 ...
Meanwhile, Sankofa the Divine Drummer plays his drums, chanting: "Lingering spirit of the dead, rise up and possess the stolen spirit of those stolen in Africa." The film [8] ends with a bird soaring high in the sky signifying the final liberation of those who had found the true meaning of the word "Sankofa" and had reconnected to their past.
The Black Arts Festival of 2010 (Chair: Bolaji Ogunsola) was created with the theme of Sankofa, a Ghanaian symbol roughly translated to mean “go back and take.” [10] The Black Arts Festival of 2011 (Chair: Hannah Joy Habte) was created with the theme of "How It Feels to be Colored Me," named after and inspired by the famous Zora Neale ...
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 ...
The Akan Sankofa Adinkra symbol was a means to remember one's ancestors and look to the future while not forgetting the past. [303] West African spiritual beliefs were mixed with the Christian faith, and free and enslaved West Africans started their own African Methodist Episcopal Zion Churches in New York City.
"Sankofa", a song from the album Blue Light 'til Dawn by Cassandra Wilson; Sankofa, an oogenus of bird-like eggs of a dinosaur species; Sankofa Square, proposed name of Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto, Canada; People: Mika'il Sankofa, U.S. sabre fencer and coach; Norman Sankofa, a fictional character on the British television soap opera Hollyoaks
The formation of the Black Audio Film Collective, like that of Sankofa Film and Video Collective, was a response to the social unrest in Britain in the 1980s: "Influenced by contemporary debate on post-colonialism and social theorists such as Homi Bhabha and Stuart Hall, both groups centered around investigations of black identity/culture within the British experience and reworked the ...
Formed in November 2005, following the members' attendance at the first Black Banjo Gathering, held in Boone, North Carolina, in April 2005, the group grew out of the success of Sankofa Strings, an ensemble that featured Dom Flemons on bones, jug, guitar, and four-string banjo, Rhiannon Giddens on banjo and fiddle and Súle Greg Wilson on bodhrán, brushes, washboard, bones, tambourine, banjo ...