Sankofa (film)
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The DVD cover
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| Directed by | Haile Gerima |
| Written by | Haile Gerima |
| Starring | Kofi Ghanaba Oyafunmike Ogunlano Alexandra Duah |
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Release dates
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1993 |
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Running time
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124 minutes |
| Country | Burkina Faso / Germany / Ghana / U.S.A. / U.K. |
| Language | English |
Sankofa is a 1993 Burkinabé drama film directed by Haile Gerima centered on the Atlantic slave trade.
Plot
The story follows Mona, a contemporary American model on a film shoot in Ghana. She has a session at Cape Coast Castle, which she does not know was historically used for the Atlantic slave trade.[1] There she encounters a mysterious old man, Sankofa, played by Kofi Ghanaba, the renowned Ghanaian musician.
Mona is transported to the past where, as a house servant named Shola on a plantation in the South of the United States, she suffers abuse by her slave masters. Nunu, an African-born field hand, and Shango, a West Indian lover of Shola, resist and rebel against the slave system. (Shango is named after a Yoruba god.) Nunu comes into conflict with her own mixed-race son; fathered by a white man, he has been made a head slave. Inspired by Nunu and Shango's determination to defy the system, Shola joins them in fighting back against her masters.
After her trials, Shola returns to the present as Mona, deeply aware of her African roots.[1]
Cast
- Sankofa, Kofi Ghanaba
- Mona/Shola, Oyafunmike Ogunlano
- Nunu, Alexandra Duah
- Joe, Nick Medley
- Shango, Mutabaruka
- Afemo Omilami
- Reggie Carter
- Mzuri
- Jimmy Lee Savage
- Hasinatu Camara
- Jim Faircloth
- Stanley Michelson
- John A. Mason
- Louise Reid
- Roger Doctor
- Alditz McKenzie
- Chrispan Rigby
- Maxwell Parris
- Hossana Ghanaba
Nominations
The film was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sylvie Kandé and Joe Karaganis, "Look Homeward, Angel: Maroons and Mulattoes in Haile Gerima's "Sankofa", Research in African Literatures, 29 (Summer, 1998), pp. 128-146
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External links
- Sankofa Official Site
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Sankofa at IMDb
Further reading
- Sylvie Kandé and Joe Karaganis, "Look Homeward, Angel: Maroons and Mulattoes in Haile Gerima's "Sankofa", Research in African Literatures, 29 (Summer, 1998), pp. 128–146
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