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Reclaiming Our Culture

Sankofa teaches us that we must go back to our roots in order to move forward. That is, 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 by planting seeds for future generations to thrive from.

The Meaning of Sankofa

"It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten."

The Sankofa ( sahn- ko- fah) is a metaphorical symbol in the Twi language ( pronounced "tree") used by the Akan people of Ghana in West Africa.

It's depicted as a stylized heart or a mythical bird that has its head turned backward taking a valuable egg ( the future), within its mouth from its back while its feet are firmly facing forward as it flies expressing the importance of reaching back to knowledge gained in the past and bringing it into the present in order to make positive progress.

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Our Sankofa Tribe

The Sankofa Tribe is a program designed to empower the minds of minority youth; in order for them to become self-aware,self-sustaining, and economically unified,by cultural education and life skills training.

Cultural Empowerment College Preparation Career Exploration Financial Literacy Advocacy Training

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Deadline Aug. 10. 2020

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You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still like air, I'll rise. -Maya Angelou	No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it. -George Washington Carver	Its easier to build strong children than to repair broken men -Frederick Douglass
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything. -Malcolm X	I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me. -Kwame Nkrumah	A dream deferred is a dream denied. Langston Hughes

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

- Marcus Garvey

Reclaiming Our Culture

Sankofa teaches us that we must go back to our roots in order to move forward. That is, 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 by planting seeds for future generations to thrive from.

The Meaning of Sankofa

Our Sankofa Tribe

The Sankofa Tribe is a program designed to empower the minds of minority youth; in order for them to become self-aware,self-sustaining, and economically unified,by cultural education and life skills training.

Cultural Empowerment College Preparation Career Exploration Financial Literacy Advocacy Training

To join the Tribe

Deadline Aug. 10. 2020

VISIT US ON INSTAGRAM

@sankofa_tribe

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still like air, I'll rise. -Maya Angelou

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it. -George Washington Carver

Its easier to build strong children than to repair broken men -Frederick Douglass

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything. -Malcolm X

I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me. -Kwame Nkrumah

A dream deferred is a dream denied. Langston Hughes

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

- Marcus Garvey