Comparing The Movie 'Spirit Of The Dead Rise Up And Tell Your Story !'

“ Spirit of the dead rise up and tell your story!” Sankofa is Ghanaian word that translates to “reach back and get it”. When one truly understands the struggles of the people of the past and what they endured, it somehow helps to find the purpose and motivation to be all one can possibly be. In the movie Sankofa, a young woman who was on the beach modeling with a white photographer, all of the sudden is taken into this dungeon full of captive slaves. When this African American woman was transported to a different time, and was suddenly being beaten, and forced to work on the fields, that’s is what “Spirit of the dead rise up and tell your story!” portrays, it is to ingrain oneself with a true understanding of what it took and what it will