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Oyafunmike Ogunlano and Alexandra Duah - 'Sankofa' (May 1993)Sankofa is an Akan word meaning roughly, “We must go back and reclaim our past in order to move forward.” Haile Gerima’s cinematic rendering of this is perhaps one of his greatest filmmaking achievements. Screened as part of the UCLA L.A. Rebellion Film Series, 'Sankofa' follows Shola, a black model who is transported back to a West Indian plantation after participating in a fashion shoot on shores of the slave castles in Ghana. Shola becomes a house slave alongside Shango, a militant Maroon fieldhand and love interest who resists her early warnings to ignore the brutalities committed against others on the plantation. Sexually abused by the plantation’s owner, Shola is drawn to Nunu, an African-born fieldhand and Maroon leader, who ignites her eventual rebellion. As a student in Howard University’s MFA Film Program, I took a class with Haile Gerima, called Third World Cinema. In it, he challenged many of our notions and beliefs about filmmaking, especially when it came to telling stories about people of color.

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One of those challenges was to scrutinize black “stock” characters in American films, or those black characters that had no back-story, but were just there to uphold white characters’ place or status. He presented a number of films where this type of black character existed- 'Casablanca,' 'Gone With the Wind,' and even Douglas Sirk’s 'Imitation of Life.' All are classic Hollywood films, but they position the black body as one of complete servitude. There exists no richness or complication within these characters.Gerima encouraged us to break and subvert that paradigm. To create black characters that were rich with inner turmoil, who resisted, struggled, who sought intimate relationships, and who possessed sensuality. It is on this foundation that 'Sankofa' rests.

One of the film’s most revolutionary contributions is Gerima’s portrayal of enslaved people, not slaves. They are people struggling with love, loss, denial, and guilt. He takes them out of the one-dimensional, passive, “victim” role, and embodies them with complications that manifest in active resistance, personal conflict, and compelling stories.In one scene, headman Noble Ali, played by Afemo Omilami, expresses his love for Nunu and she lightly rejects him, saying, “Don’t wait for me. I can’t be with no headman.” There is humor here, but there’s also pain as he shows deep remorse for aiding in the abuse of fellow enslaved people. This scene unpacks a character who could be easily labeled a “villain” in another film. But in this scene, we experience the inner conflict of a person who is forced to exact violence on his own people, while harboring a certain internal violence and pain for those actions.

That violence inhibits his ability to form a loving relationship with another person. This is as heart-wrenching as it is grounded in the history that Gerima spent over 20 years researching.Another important element of the film lies in its aesthetic and visual associations. There’s a continual presence and framing of the land and the character’s relationship to it. Close shots of Shango’s eyes through the green sugarcane stalk evoke a oneness of the black body to land, and of the land.

A coexistence of power and ultimate universality is furthered. A low-angle shot of Shola standing amidst the cane stalks with a machete in hand exalts her to that of authority in this environment, and invites the viewer to see her as such. In one of his more daring but resonant sequences, he juxtaposes and equates images of Virgin Mary and Christian saints to Nunu, an African woman of profound wisdom whose son, the product of rape, becomes submerged in waves of self-hatred and religious fervor encouraged by the presence of the church.When it was released in May 1993, Gerima embarked on an unprecedented distribution and promotional model that helped make it one of the most financially successful black films to date. Propelled by grassroots organizing, community support, and packed theaters, Gerima championed an alternative, highly successful route to independent film distribution outside of the studio system.

And in light of recent films like Quentin Tarantino’s 'Django Unchained' and Steve McQueen’s 'Twelve Years a Slave,' I hope we look back to 'Sankofa' for its audacity to humanize and re-envision a people in a layered, complicated narrative form.Nijla Mu’min is a writer and filmmaker from the East Bay Area. She is currently in post-production on Visit her website.

Sankofa, meaning 'We must go back and reclaim our past so we can move forward; so we understand why and how we came to be who we are today', is a powerful film that shows the harsh and tragic conditions of slavery. This film was directed and produced by Haile Gerima, which is special in its self because it is a movie about slavery made by a black director and cast, whereas many slave movies have been made by white filmmakers.

Sankofa was released in 1993 by the film company and starred the beautiful Oyafunmike Ogunlano, playing the role of Mona, an American model that gets a reality check about her people’s past. The movie starts off at the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana with Sankofa (Kofi Ghanaba), playing the drums and communicating with spirits, transporting Mona back to the American south during slavery times.One of the main themes that I picked up while watching Sankofa, and discussing the movie with Oyafunmike Ogunlano, was how the film shows an untold story of resistance. It is empowering for black people to know that their people fought back during slavery. The story of slavery has always been told from a Euro-centric point of view, with the theme that whites “freed” the blacks. This notion denied blacks the truth that they “freed themselves”.

Many African Americans grow up with low self esteem because they are treated differently through life, and have to live knowing that their ancestors were enslaved, beaten, and served the white man. This film has been an educational tool to many different types of people around the world, but especially to black people growing up in America. This film encourages African Americans to hold their head up high, and be proud to have the blood of slaves running through their bodies.

Sankofa shows the loyalty, respect, resistance, and positive qualities that the slaves lived up to that their white slave masters did not. I can also relate this film to how African American’s today are the “moral consciousness” of this country. Since African’s were brought to this country hundreds of years ago to today, they have been degraded, beaten, discriminated, and treated anything but equal, and the dominant culture is aware, but does not really want to face what they have done.Another theme that I witnessed was how Christianity was used to manipulate people, and justify slavery. The young mixed boy named Joe was so brainwashed by his Christian mentor that he murdered his own mother in the name of Christianity. He believed that his mother was the devil because she and the rest of the slaves worshipped African Gods, and not his God.

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Slaves were viewed as “heathens”, and whites felt religiously superior. This was also one of the ways which slavery was justified, through Christianity. Slave masters could have some of the moral burden lifted from their shoulders if they believed that they were doing a good deed by enslaving blacks and ensuring them salvation.I really took a lot from the film “Sankofa”.

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I was not aware of how much of a fight that blacks had put up against the oppressors. This is a story that is rarely told, so I am blessed to have seen this movie. I really respect the fact that it is a black made film, this prevents a skewed perspective that may have been there if directed by European Americans.

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This film fits in nicely with the rest of my knowledge of slavery, and was almost a missing puzzle piece.Even though I consider myself a Christian, I am completely aware of the evil things people have used the name of Christianity for. Religion played a huge role in slavery, and the manipulation of Christianity was devastating to blacks at that time. Taking Hip-Hop in Urban America, as well as Black Intellectuals have both influenced the way I viewed “Sankofa”. I really picked up on the themes from the many discussions we has in Black Intellectuals because we had dived into the complexities of slavery. Hip-Hop in Urban America let me pick up on the beat of the drum from when Kofi was communicating with the African Gods. It really ties in with current day hip-hop and the African American aesthetic.