Sankofa (film)

Sankofa (Amharic: ሳንኮፋ) e la 1993 Ethiopian-produced drama film written ane daraata ko a Haile Gerima naŋ kyaare a Atlantic slave trade. A storyline yelsoore kyaare la Oyafunmike Ogunlano, Kofi Ghanaba, Mutabaruka, Alexandra Duah, ane Afemo Omilami.A sɛgebiri Sankofa yi la a Akan language of Ghana ka o tɛgɛ e "kaa puori, kaa bɔ, ane bɔ yɛŋ,faŋa ane wederoŋ," yele yi a Dr. Anna Julia Cooper.https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0031-8906 A sɛgebiri 'Sankofa'  yelnimizeɛ zaa kyaare la ka fo taa teɛroŋ kyaare yele mine kaŋa. A sinii poɔ, Sankofa yi la nulee zie ane boŋŋmeɛre mine na kyaare Divine Drummer.https://web.archive.org/web/20020623230049/http://wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/sankofa.htm Gerima's manne la yele mine wuli African descent na ba e drifting na e toɔre neŋ a African roots. Gerima da de la a deɛndeɛna na da e Mona ka o wuli lɛnɛɛ  African perception kyaare a o waaloŋ na wulo sobie ane  "leɛ gaa o yiibu zie" (Gerima).

 Plot 
A sinii da pukyaare la Divine Drummer, Sankofa (na da ŋmɛ yi Kofi Ghanaba), ŋmeɛbo Fontomfrom drums ane chanting  a yelgbɔge, "Lingering spirit of the dead, rise up." A o yelyaga yeluu neŋ a o ŋmembilii kyaare a African lands, te gaŋ a zaa Ghana. A drumming anaso da kyaare la ka o da yeli yele ko a o ŋmembilii, na da kpi yi a Maafa  a yiri poɔ. A yelyaga da la gaa la nimitɔɔre ka o wuli a Mona (Oyafunmike Ogunlano), na  e contemporary African-American model, a da be a photo session a coast of Ghana.https://web.archive.org/web/20020623230049/http://wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/sankofa.htm

 Cast 

 alt=Added Sankofa|thumb|Sankofa la ka n eŋKofi Ghanaba as Sankofa
 Oyafunmike Ogunlano as Mona/Shola
 Alexandra Duah as Nunu
 Nick Medley as Joe
 Mutabaruka as Shango
 Afemo Omilami as Noble Ali
 Reggie Carter as Father Raphael
 Mzuri as Lucy
 Jimmy Lee Savage as Mussa
 Hasinatu Camara as Jumma
 Jim Faircloth as James
 alt=Added Sankofa|thumb|Sankofa la ka n eŋStanley Michelson as Mr. Lafayette
 John A. Mason
 Louise Reid
 Roger Doctor as Nathan
 Alditz McKenzie as Kuta
 Chrispan Rigby as Photographer
 Maxwell Parris as Baby Ngozi
 Hossana Ghanaba

 Critical reception 
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Sankofa da die la a kyɔɔtare na da be a African Cinema Festival a Italy ane Best Cinematography a FESPACO Pan-African Film Festival a Burkina Faso.https://web.archive.org/web/20100623003951/http://www.umass.edu/afroam/downloads/reading06.pdf

A sinii meŋ paale la a 500 Utterly Essential Movies ka o da nyɛ a Cultivate Great Taste na da be a Cinema yi professors ko Film Studies a Harvard University, yi a yelzu na da e "na da e sinii na da e o toɔre a da be a dakore saŋa a da be a cinema, 1980-2000."https://web.archive.org/web/20180419183728/https://brightside.me/article/500-utterly-essential-movies-to-cultivate-great-taste-in-cinema-47855/

"A sinii da taa la eebo yi yelyaga na da e sagedeebo yi a deɛdeɛneba zie, na da taa ebo yi a n boɔbo na da kyaare a epic two-hour drama." (William Beik, July 1994)https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=15171

"Haile Gerima's poetic ane a sinii ta taa la eebo kyaare a heroine's nyɔvore ane yɛŋ kyaare a o bammo na da be kyaare a sinii. Neɛ zaa da kombaŋ yeli yelzaa kyaare a yelyaga sooroo na a sinii na da soore."

 Kaa-iruuŋ 
alt=Added Sankofa|thumb|Sankofa la ka n eŋ
A 2021, ARRAY da leɛre la a sinii kyaare a 4K ne yelbeɛle mine na da kyaare a theatrical zoobu ane iruuŋ na da be a Netflix na da e a September 24, 2021. O taa la a o L.A. re-release debut na be DuVernay’s Array Creative Campus.http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1993/02_programm_1993/02_Programm_1993.html

 Meŋ kaa kyɛ 

 Africanfuturism
 List of films featuring slavery
 List of Afrofuturist films

 Nimitɔɔre kannoo 

 Pamela Woolford, PDF "Filming Slavery: A kɔmbɔ neŋ a Haile Gerima" Transition, No. 64. (1994),https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/haile-gerimas-sankofa-coming-to-netflix-in-september-2021/ pp. 90–104.
Ziiri mine sommo
 Sankofa Official Site
 Paper on proverbs in film

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