Pedigree – It’s almost as if the word wants to break in half from the weight it’s carrying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sankofa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Cultivated through oral tradi-tion by the Akan people of Ghana, sankofa posits that one should remember the past in order to make positive progress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The word means \u201cto retrieve\u201d in the Akan (Twi) language, and its philosophical connotation is expanded upon in this West African proverb: Se wo were fi na wosankofa a yenkyi (\u201cIt is not taboo to go back and fetch what you for-got\u201d). <\/p>\n\n\n\n The power of sankofa comes from this central idea: To know your history and heritage is to know your current self, the world around you, and how to make improvements to both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are two main adinkra symbols associated with this concept: a heart that curls inward and outward, and a bird looking backward while carrying an egg in its mouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n People often fabricate the sankofa bird as a gold weight and emblazon the heart shape onto artwork or their bodies as tattoos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The heart also appears on many gates in America, especially in New York City. In order to respond creatively to life\u2019s challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cornel advises you to tap into some ancestral knowledge. \u201cWithout the best of our roots,\u201d he says, \u201cwe cannot even think about wise, courageous, visionary R-O-U-T-E-S. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And by routes, I mean our individual lives, our individual journeys and pilgrimages, and our collective lives.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Researching your family history can help you to establish your own identity, embrace your culture and traditions, and help you to understand why you are who you are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Connect more deeply with a sense of self by learning about their family’s past\u2014where they came from, who they were, what they did, the trials they overcame, the accomplishments they achieved, the dreams they had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It can also give your sense of self-worth and belonging a boost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It can also do the opposite. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lineage Pedigree – It’s almost as if the word wants to break in half from the weight it’s carrying. Sankofa Cultivated through oral tradi-tion by…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_customify_content_layout":"","_customify_sidebar":"","_customify_page_header_display":"","_customify_disable_header":"","_customify_disable_header_top":"","_customify_disable_header_main":"","_customify_disable_header_bottom":"","_customify_disable_page_title":"","_customify_disable_content_vertical_padding":"","_customify_disable_footer_top":"","_customify_disable_footer_main":"","_customify_disable_footer_bottom":"","_customify_breadcrumb_display":"","_customify_header_transparent_display":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rizeldelano.com\/chronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rizeldelano.com\/chronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rizeldelano.com\/chronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rizeldelano.com\/chronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rizeldelano.com\/chronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rizeldelano.com\/chronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2720,"href":"https:\/\/rizeldelano.com\/chronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions\/2720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rizeldelano.com\/chronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rizeldelano.com\/chronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rizeldelano.com\/chronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}