Sankofa as Praxis: Ontological Healing, Memory, and Decolonial Return
Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies
Published online on December 30, 2025
Abstract
Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, Ahead of Print.
This paper theorizes Sankofa—the Akan principle of “return and retrieve”—as a decolonial praxis of ontological healing, memory, and African radical insurgence. Writing from a Ghanaian diasporic standpoint shaped by the crossings, frictions, and ...
This paper theorizes Sankofa—the Akan principle of “return and retrieve”—as a decolonial praxis of ontological healing, memory, and African radical insurgence. Writing from a Ghanaian diasporic standpoint shaped by the crossings, frictions, and ...