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Mutabaruka, Afemo Omilami, Kofi Ghanaba, Oyafunmike Ogunlano, Alexandra Duah

While visiting an old fortress from the slave-trade era in Ghana, Mona (Oyafunmike Ogunlano) encounters a colorful local character, an elderly mystic going by the name of Sankofa. Mona is a black Amer... read more read more...ican model visiting the country for a photo-session. The old man claims to be in contact with spirits, and she is intrigued by this. When she goes to visit him, she suddenly finds herself back in the old slavery days, a slave herself who is captured and shipped to a sugar planation in the American south. There, she has various relationships and adventures in the build-up to participating in a slave revolt. Just as that is getting fully underway, she finds herself back in the present, deeply affected by what has gone before. The old mystic's name is a word in the Akan language which has the complex meaning of "going to the past, remembering it, and with it, turning to the future." ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

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Unrated, 2 hr. 4 min.

Directed by: Haile Gerima

Release Date: May 28, 1993

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DVD Release Date: October 25, 1996

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Caryn James
May 20, 2003
Caryn James, New York Times

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Jonathan Rosenbaum
October 16, 2001
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

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February 14, 2001
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August 22, 2005
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February 9, 2006
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January 1, 2000
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