Sankofa; Slave Rebellion

The movie Sankofa, directed by Haile Germina, is a movie the follows the story of Mona, who's a model on a photo shoot for a white photographer, in a castle in Ghana, where apparently she doesn't know the sad historic weigh the place carries of her ancestors. While in her photo shoot she is told by a mysterious musician, to go back to her roots, something that seemed to had confused her. Later on while in the castle ruins she is transported to the past where she lives the life of a slave named Shola, who was abused by her owner and later on fights and rebels against her masters together with Shango, her love interest, and other slaves, like Nunu, who's son was of mixed race and converted to Christianity, raised by one of the white men and turned against his own people. After the rebellion Mona returns to the present and with a better understanding of her roots and the suffering of her descendants.

The movie Sankofa takes place on the coast of Ghana. Mona travels back to the past to reclaim her identity. She becomes a house slave named Shola living on a plantation. She lives her life being raped and abused by her slave owner. Through this journey, Mona looks to find out who she really is through the people she meets, the African perception of identity, the meaning and connection to Sankofa, and what it suggests to Africans and non-Africans.

     This film surprised me. I never knew that that happened to children in those days. Slavery wasn't just the Negroes and Indians. It made me think how lucky I am to live in the day in age that I do, even though there are still children treated like this. I just was lucky and grew up in a good

Sankofa is an Ankan word which means, “We must go back and reclaim our past in order to move forward ( Diop, 2014).” The film Sankofa was produced in the year 1993 in Ghana directed by Haile Gerima. It is based on the Atlantic slave trade. It is the story slavery from the point of view of Africans. In the film, all characters represent an element of African American culture (Gerima, 1993). It also shows the traditional racial scale with the whites at the top followed by Half-castes in the middle and blacks at the bottom.

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To begin, Haile Gerima’s film, Sankofa, portrays a story of identity and self-discovery in which Mona, an African-American model, possesses the body of a house-slave named Shola. Shola’s journey from a compliant house slave to a rebellious enslaved woman permits Mona to relearn her African culture and history. In the end, Mona emerges with a newfound consciousness of her African roots.