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In America (specifically Texas) no one is teaching me the history of the people I descended from. So, I’ve been teaching myself. This is what I learned today in my Independent Black Cultural studies.
Sankofa - the word in the Akan language of Ghana that translates in English to “go back and take”. It is often associated with the proverb, “Se wo were fi na wosankofa a yenkyi,” which translates “It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.”
It symbolizes one taking from the past what is good and bringing it into the present in order to make positive progress through the benevolent use of knowledge. Sankofa is symbolized by a bird with its neck turned backwards, carrying an egg in its beak. The egg shows how fragile the process of retrieval can be; it is a process that has to be handled with care and sensitivity. The egg is also a symbol of life. The handshake depicts reconciliation among persons of African heritage in the Diaspora and on the continent. The blue hand represents the descendants of Africans who were forcibly taken across the ocean during the transatlantic slave trade era, and the black hand represents continental Africans. Our strength as a people will be magnificently multiplied when we are reconciled, when we stand together as sisters and brothers, sons and daughters of Africa.
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What makes the royal family of a country differ from the peasant? Royalty knows its ancestry. Royalty knows its history. This is what makes them royal. You can’t have a king who can’t trace his history back to his fore-fathers. The only way he can be king is to be born a king. But if you take away his history, and he doesn’t know who his fore-fathers are, what does he become? A peasant. A common, ordinary man.Malcolm X
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This is titled “Sissaretta Jones, “the Black Patty” singer, entertainer, leader of a musical company.” The photograph is undated, but Sissieretta Jones lived from 1868 to 1933, and she was a popular opera singer who performed at the White House for Presidents Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley, and Roosevelt – as well as the British Royal Family.
