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Release Date:
May 28, 1993
Summary:
Mona (Oyafunmike Ogunlano) is a Black American fashion model on a photo shoot in Cape Coast, Ghana. Through Mr. Gerima’s imaginative storytelling, she undergoes a journey back in time to a plantation in North America. There she becomes Shola, an enslaved African woman who labors in the master’s house and experiences the horrors of slavery firsthand. In becoming Shola, Mona recovers and confronts her ancestral identity and experience. While enduring monstrous trauma at the hands of white men who owned people for profit, Shola’s interactions with her fellow enslaved Africans are rich with humanity, respect and dignity for one another. Most notably, she connects with Shango (Mutabaruka), a rebellious African man who toils in the fields, and Nunu (Alexandra Duah), one of the few of the enslaved to remember her life in Africa before being stolen and terrorized by European traders. [Array]
Details
| Runtime: | 125 min |
| Rating: | Not Rated |
| Official Site: | http://www.arraynow.com/sankofa |
| Production: | Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) |
| Genres: | Drama |
| Countries: | DE, GB, US, ET, BF, GH |
| Languages: | English, Akan |
| Director | Credit |
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| Haile Gerima | Director |
| Writer | Credit |
|---|---|
| Haile Gerima | Writer |
| Principal Cast | Credit |
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| Afemo Omilami | Noble Ali |
| Alexandra Duah | Nunu |
| Hasinatu Camara | Jumma |
| Jimmy Lee Savage | Mussa |
| Kofi Ghanaba | Sankofa |
| Mutabaruka | Shango |
| Mzuri | Lucy |
| Nick Medley | Joe |
| Oyafunmike Ogunlano | Mona |
| Reggie Carter | Father Raphael |
| Cast | Credit |
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| Jim Faircloth | James |
| John A. Mason | Big Boy |
| Louise Reid | Esther |
| Roger Doctor | Nathan |
| Stanley Michelson | Mr. Lafayette |
| Producer | Credit |
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| Ada Marie Babino | Line Producer |
| Haile Gerima | Producer |
| Shirikiana Aina | Co-Producer |
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