Sankofa Part 2

While visiting an old fortress from the slave-trade era in Ghana, Mona (Oyafunmike Ogunlano) encounters a colorful local character, an elderly mystic going by the name of Sankofa. Mona is a black American model visiting the country for a photo-session. The old man claims to be in contact with spirits, and she is intrigued by this. When she goes to visit him, she suddenly finds herself back in the old slavery days, a slave herself who is captured and shipped to a sugar planation in the American south. There, she has various relationships and adventures in the build-up to participating in a slave revolt. Just as that is getting fully underway, she finds herself back in the present, deeply affected by what has gone before. The old mystic's name is a word in the Akan language which has the complex meaning of "going to the past, remembering it, and with it, turning to the future." ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Sankofa
• Movie
• Slave
• Trade
• Ghana
• West
• Africa
• Slavery
• Black
• History
• America
• Spirits
• Akan
• language

[congobigp]

when was this movie released?

[queenceezy]

1993

[AfriNaija12]

Must never forget the ancestors, for that would be forgetting ourselves (although sadly many of us do). Thank you for posting this video sista, hotep.

[KingAziz89]

All black people orginated from africa whether yu from puerto rico domincan republic ameerica brazil argentina bahamas jamaica trinidad hati wherever if yu r black and on the western hemisphere 9 times out of 10 yu r decendands of slaves kno ya history we may speak different languages but those where forced upon us yu speak english but yet yu r not from England yu speak Spanish yet yu not from Spain Yu speak Portuguese but yu not from Portugal smdh @ these comments

[Blastaar7]

Love the jam at the beginning.

[newera2011100]

watching for film class...love youtube sleep in class watch the video at home...take notes still pass

[MizContagiouz]

@fartman114 .. its acceptable nudity because it is in historical context or for educational purposes. Its the same reason the discovery channel can show nudity when it pertains to tribes and their people in traditional garb.

[BigTimeShowdown]

if i ever win the jackpot i re-make this.

[lilcoco770007]

Thank you for posting this!

[Blastaar7]

@KingAziz89 thumbs up. You could've saved a of time and just told them to read up on the trans atlantic slave trade instead of typing all of that.

[Blastaar7]

I saw this in college too, I've wanted the song they're singing since then too.

[ccbs82]

I saw this back when I was in college.  Great movie.

[Jahmylov]

@Jahmylov ..Correction..Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX

[Jahmylov]

@AfriNaija12 ..I was just listening to I believe tha last Gil Scott Album called "We're New Here" where Gil makes a statement saying ..Our Ancestors are with Us and want us to survive so they can live on thru us....