Sankofa (film)

Sankofa is a 1993 Burkinab drama film directed by Haile Gerima centered on the Atlantic slave trade.

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 Africanborn 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 mixedrace son fathered by a white man, he has been made a head slave. Inspired by Nunu and Shangos determination to defy the system, Shola joins them in fighting back against her masters.

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