Sankofa (film)

Sankofa (film)

film

Title	Sankofa
Main subject	slavery in the United States
Genre	drama film
Publication date	1993
Country of origin	United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Original language of film or TV show	English
Director	Haile Gerima
Screenwriter	Haile Gerima
Narrative location	Ghana
Color	color
Review score	92%, 8.2/10
CNC film rating (France)	no age restriction

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. '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. 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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