{"id":2795,"date":"2014-12-20T12:34:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T20:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2015.africanfilmfestival.org\/?p=2795"},"modified":"2014-12-20T12:34:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T20:34:26","slug":"sankofa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2015\/sankofa\/","title":{"rendered":"SANKOFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sunday Retrospective Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CFAF\u2019s Top 10 African Films<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Sankofa<\/em> in the West African Akan language means returning to your past, recovering what you\u2019ve lost, and moving forward. A parable of African-American enslavement and resistance, the film tells the story of Mona, an African-American fashion model on a photo shoot at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, who is transported back in time to a sugar cane plantation in the Americas where she becomes Shola, an enslaved African woman. She experiences firsthand the brutality of the slave system.<\/p>\n<p>In English.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sponsored by EAI Information Systems<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday Retrospective Series CFAF\u2019s Top 10 African Films Sankofa in the West African Akan language means returning to your past, recovering what you\u2019ve lost, and moving forward. A parable of African-American enslavement and resistance, the film tells the story of Mona, an African-American fashion model on a photo shoot at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ghana","category-jamaica","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2797,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions\/2797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}