Sankofa: Slave Rebellion
Caribbean Politics
Sankofa is an Akan word that means “Go back to your past, to move on to the future." Literally translated it means "it is not taboo to go back and fetch what you forgot". This movie was written, produced and directed by Haille Gerima, a black professor at Howard University. The movie portrays a black model that goes to modern-day Africa to do a movie shoot with her photographer. While she is there, she encounters a Black African who tells her to return to her past. This man is Sankofa, a self appointed guardian of what used to be the Lafayette plantation. Sankofa is soon escorted off of the grounds by the employed guards. During the course of her trip, she follows a group of tourists into one of the chambers where slaves who had been stolen from their native lands used to be held. Mysteriously, the model is transported back into slavery times, and she finds herself chained by the wrists and ankles in a......
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