Meaning of Sankofa

Sankofa pronounced SAN-KO-FA

(SAN - meaning "to return," KO - meaning "to go," FA - meaning "to look, to seek and retrieve").

Sankofa represent the ideology of returning to the past to correct mistakes, bring forward the good from the past into the future. The Sankofa is the old Ashanti Adinkra symbol of a bird with its head turned backwards taking an egg off its back, that represents this ancient value.

Proverb:

"Se wo were fi na wo sankofa a yenkyi,” which translates "It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.”

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