“The Akan tribe in Ghana has a word, Sankofa, symbolized by a bird with its head turned around to take an egg from its back. The Sankofa heron illustrates a Twi proverb: se wo were fi na wosankofa a yenkyi. Translated, it says, “It is no sin to go back and fetch what you have forgotten.” I’ve adopted the practice of spiritual reconnection with my ancestors to heal intergenerational trauma….” -Jabari S. Jones
What have your ancestors left for you to go back and reclaim?