Sankofa

Sankofa

Release Date:  5/28/1993
Country of Release:  USA, Germany, Ghana, Burkina Faso
Length:  125 minutes
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Medium:  Video
Genre:  DRA
Release Message:  Model Mona (Oyafunmike Ogunlano) returns home to Ghana for a photo-shoot in an old fort which used to house thousands of slaves awaiting shipment overseas. She becomes possessed by the spirit of a former slave and is transported back in time to a sugar plantation in the States.
Description:  A self-absorbed Black American fashion model on a photo shoot in Africa is spiritually transported back to a plantation in the West Indies where she experiences first-hand the physical and psychic horrors of chattel slavery, and eventually the redemptive power of community and rebellion as she becomes a member of a freedom-seeking Maroon colony. An American/German/Ghaniain/Burkinabe fantasy film directed by Hail_ Gerima.