The story of one’s past can affect their future and bring along a shocking reality of how one lives their daily lives. It opens up a world of unknowns and creates a world of realization through the stories that hang in the past. Sankofa digs deep into the roots of slavery and into its emotional past to tell the story about the daily life, brutalities and sacrifices of slaves and ties them together to create lifelong lessons that carry on into the future (Sankofa, 1993). Sankofa means "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." "We should reach back and gather the best of what our past has to teach us, so that we can achieve our full potential as we move forward.
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Everyone’s dream is to make it to the hills where they will find freedom and a new life. The rebels before heading back to the plantation after a meeting one night burned down the sugar cane fields. The plantation owner didn’t know who was involved in the burning so he decided in order to make an example he chose random field hands for punishment. They were hung in cages up in trees until they died. Soon after, Nunu and some other slave hands were marched off abruptly to be sold. Her son, Joe, sits back in the distance and watches them take his mother away but it didn’t seem to bother him at all. Later that day Nunu was returned to the plantation because no one wanted to buy her. She was finally too old to be sold. Joe runs to Father Rafael and talks to him about his mother and how she is worshipping the wrong god and how he thinks she wants to poison him. The priest tells Joe that he is different from the rest then Joe asks him who his father is and all Father Rafael says is that god is his one and only father. The priest clearly doesn’t want Joe to know his father is white. The movie takes a strange turn and shows Joe being sexual with Lucy a fellow slave. He lures her into his bedroom where they make love to one another. Lucy notices that he is wearing a Virgin Mary neckless and he becomes angered with her and throws her out of his home and calls her a heathen. Lucy become super upset and lashes out at Joe and tells him he is not a man. Lucy becomes so upset that Joe doesn’t love her that she seeks out assistance from Shongo to make a medicine that will make him love her. Shongo provides her with a medicine that will make him throw up all the wickedness that’s inside him (Sankofa,
Everyone’s dream is to make it to the hills where they will find freedom and a new life. The rebels before heading back to the plantation after a meeting one night burned down the sugar cane fields. The plantation owner didn’t know who was involved in the burning so he decided in order to make an example he chose random field hands for punishment. They were hung in cages up in trees until they died. Soon after, Nunu and some other slave hands were marched off abruptly to be sold. Her son, Joe, sits back in the distance and watches them take his mother away but it didn’t seem to bother him at all. Later that day Nunu was returned to the plantation because no one wanted to buy her. She was finally too old to be sold. Joe runs to Father Rafael and talks to him about his mother and how she is worshipping the wrong god and how he thinks she wants to poison him. The priest tells Joe that he is different from the rest then Joe asks him who his father is and all Father Rafael says is that god is his one and only father. The priest clearly doesn’t want Joe to know his father is white. The movie takes a strange turn and shows Joe being sexual with Lucy a fellow slave. He lures her into his bedroom where they make love to one another. Lucy notices that he is wearing a Virgin Mary neckless and he becomes angered with her and throws her out of his home and calls her a heathen. Lucy become super upset and lashes out at Joe and tells him he is not a man. Lucy becomes so upset that Joe doesn’t love her that she seeks out assistance from Shongo to make a medicine that will make him love her. Shongo provides her with a medicine that will make him throw up all the wickedness that’s inside him (Sankofa,