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  • The word "sankofa" comes from a proverb meaning: "It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten."

    News - chicagotribune.com By Manya A. Brachear 2012

  • She returns for the Festival Voix d'Amériques, where she'll perform her latest multi-character solo piece, benu (the second in a trilogy entitled sankofa), at Théâtre La Chapelle.

    AltWeeklies.com Site Feed 2010

  • The pattern was soon identified as the sankofa - a symbol printed on funereal garments in West Africa - and it captured the imagination of scholars, preservationists and designers.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • She returns for the Festival Voix d'Amériques, where she'll perform her latest multi-character solo piece, benu (the second in a trilogy entitled sankofa), at Théâtre La Chapelle.

    AltWeeklies.com Site Feed 2010

  • The wrought-iron "sankofa," a heart with spirals inside and out, appears throughout the quarter.

    Rita J. King: Dear Honorable First Lady Laura Bush 2008

  • In order to build the future - the sankofa reminds us - the past cannot be forgotten.

    Rita J. King: Dear Honorable First Lady Laura Bush 2008

  • If the worthy goal to Preserve America will serve as your legacy, then the program ought to seriously consider embracing the sankofa for the new interactive website as a gesture of commitment toward acknowledging this nation's history of enslavement and liberation, and allow it to stand as an emblem for the future of a city, and region, that contains one of America's richest cultural heritages.

    Rita J. King: Dear Honorable First Lady Laura Bush 2008

  • The sankofa was widely invoked in 2003, when the 419 remains were reinterred at the site, now known as the African Burial Ground, following painstaking examination.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • As a result of research by scholars who prepared reports in 2006 for the federal government, the interpretive sign in the service's new $5.2 million visitor center, scheduled to open on Feb. 27, will say only that the design "could be a sankofa symbol" and that "no one knows for sure."

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • Indeed, it suggests that the sankofa probably did not yet exist as a symbol in Africa at the time the coffin was made, and that the design is likely Anglo-American in origin.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

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