Sankofa Part 1

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

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[thelipstickfemme]

I have been looking for this for a bit. I remember seeing it a small art theater in San Francisco. Great film. Love the symbolism and message/history. The African Diaspora is vast and wide. What a genocide.

[queenceezy]

Indeed!

[Riema32391]

thank you so much Thiis movie is pat of my colledge coriculum. I appreciate you posting this movie. It gives me the much desiered ability to read ahaed.

[queenceezy]

I am glad.

[MrOshun]

Such an underated movie...but one of my absolute favorites.

[Kiara12212]

Oh and she's also HILARIOUS.

[Kiara12212]

My grandmother is Oyafumike.I'm babysitting her cat!:D

[SuperMarina42]

@Supdude1964 Do not act the fool, know one is saying, the white man is evil. This film this about factual events of a cruel part of world history, where a race of men dehumanise another race for money. Tribes of all races go to war but only a few tribes on this earth has treated others as sub-humans.

[gates1878]

This movie was shown in my African American History class. This is a most see movie, and should be viewed by all African Americans.

[ethiosfuture]

Nice to see director from East Africa make a movie about West Africa!

Africa Unite! 

[gat333]

Now,genocide,eugenics and population control has become very updated and scientific and people become brainwashed and self induced to do genocide upon themselves thru the use of guns,drugs,drinking and toxic food.

[Poopie819]

I love this movie because its base on truth

[Supdude1964]

Warring tribes fought against each other and men from these warring tribes would help slavers from other countries such as Argentina, Peru, Portugal, United States, Cuba and others, to capture people from rival tribes to be shipped for slavery in each country. It wasn't just the white man who is to be blamed. Quit crying about how evil the white man is and realize that evil resides in everyone. Not one man is good in the world.