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06-02-07, 11:38 PM
"Sankofa is an ancient concept. Though the word is ostensibly Akan (West Afrika) it is a timeless principle of all creation, and applies to both spiritual and material aspects of creation. Sankofa is not merely 'going back to fetch that which you have lost.' It is a dual process of internal and external development...[it] is analogous to a forest giant oaks with a linked and intertwined root system.
Sankofa is that process epitomized in an ever-expanding root system that develops almost imperceptibly. That root system of timeless historical tradition anchors and nourishes our cultural reality, the flower of our existence."
Kwame Agyei & Akua Nson Akoto
The Sankofa Movement: ReAfrikanization & The Reality of War
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals
Omowale Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
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