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. 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. 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.

## Cast

* alt=Added Sankofa|thumb|'''''Sankofa la ka n eŋ'''''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
* alt=Added Sankofa|thumb|'''''Sankofa la ka n eŋ'''''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

## 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.

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."

"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)

"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
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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.

## 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), pp. 90–104.
## Ziiri mine sommo
* Sankofa Official Site
* Paper on proverbs in film

## Sommo Yizie