Sankofa (film)

Sankofa (Amharic: ሳንኮፋ) anɛ yʋʋm tusir, kɔbiswai nɛ piswai nɛ atan’ (1993) sini kanɛ ka Ethiopia dim maal, ka one sɔbi li ka gaadi li tuon an Haile Gerima li pa’al nɛ Atlantic slave trade ka ba da kuosid nidib sankpan’asim la. Banɛ paas sini la ni anɛ Oyafunmike Ogunlano, Kofi Ghanaba, Mutabaruka, Alexandra Duah, nɛ Afemo Omilami. Sankofa yinɛ Akan buudi pian’ad kanɛ bɛ Ghana la, ka li gbin an "lɛm, ieem, ka nyɛ ya’am, paŋ nɛ ti’ir," wan wʋʋ Dr. Anna Julia Cooper yel si’em la."Special Issue Editor Introduction Sankofa The Deed of Memory". Phylon. 51 (1). 2014. ISSN 0031-8906. 'Sankofa' pa’al ye fʋ da tami sankanɛ gaad ka gɔsid bɛɛg yela.

Sini la pʋʋgin, zanbin kanɛ ka ba nɔki pa’al Sankofa anɛ dawan lʋŋ nwɛ’ɛd."Sankofa". Archived from the original on 23 June 2002. Gerima sini nwa’ pa’al ye African dim pʋ tammidi ba buudi malima nɛ ban yi si’el naa. Gerima nɔknɛ Mona pa’al Africa dimi mi’ ban yi si’el na ka "pʋ tammid ban yi si’el naa" (Gerima).

 Cast 

 Kofi 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
 Stanley 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

 See also 

 Africanfuturism
 List of films featuring slavery
 List of Afrofuturist films

 Further reading 

 Pamela Woolford, PDF "Filming Slavery: A Conversation with Haile Gerima" Transition, No. 64. (1994), pp. 90–104.

 External links 

 Sankofa Official Site
 Paper on proverbs in film
 Sankofa at IMDb

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