Sankofa
What is the symbol of Sankofa?
A bird looking behind itself, caring for an egg on its back
She led at least 70 enslaved Black people to freedom...
Harriet Tubman
Who was the richest man to ever live?
Mansa Musa.
“I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.”
Kwame Nkrumah
Name 1 weird thing Mr. Jibril has eaten.
Guinea pig, brain, liver, fermented shark
What does the egg in the sankofa symbol represent?
The next generation
Major leader of the Civil Rights movement who wrote "I have a dream..."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The three kingdoms of West Africa got rich off of trading what two resources?
Salt and gold
"Both the ‘rich’ and the ‘poor’ individual were completely secure in African society… Nobody starved, either of food or of human dignity, because he lacked personal wealth; he could depend on the wealth possessed by the community of which he was a member."
Julius Nyerere
Invented 300 different ways to use peanuts...
George Washington Carver
What country is the word "Sankofa" from?
Ghana
He was the first President of Ghana after independence...
Kwame Nkrumah
List the three West African kingdoms.
Ghana, Mali, Songhai
“The political philosophy of Black nationalism only means that if you and I are going to live in a Black community… we must understand the politics of our community, and we must know what politics is supposed to produce. We must know what politics play in our lives. And until we become politically mature, we will always be misled, led astray, or deceived, or maneuvered into supporting someone politically who doesn't have the good of our community at heart.”
Malcolm X
What was Malcolm X's religion?
Islam
What does the word "sankofa" mean?
To go back and fetch it.
She was a member of the Black Liberation Army and Black Panther Party who escaped US government prison to live in freedom in Cuba...
Assata Shakur
One King (Mansa) from Mali set up a university in what city?
Timbuktu
“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.”
Assata Shakur
Claudia Jones was from what region in the Americas? (Starts with a "C")
Caribbean
What is the name of the culture who created the concept of "sankofa"?
The Akan people
Leader of the Haitian revolution who successfully kicked white people off the island of Haiti...
Jean Jacques Dessalines
What European country conquered and colonized most of West Africa?
France
“… as far as Black people are concerned, white people are historically disqualified from interpreting Black folks to Black folks.”
Walter Rodney
What was the political ideology of the Black Panther Party?
Marxism-Leninism, Communism, Socialism