Sankofa is an Adinkra concept of "roots", symbolized by a bird with its head turned backwards

Sankofa may also refer to:

• Sankofa (film), 1993
• Sankofa (novel), 2021
• Sankofa Film and Video Collective
• Sankofa (album), 2025
• Sankofa Television, a subsidiary of African Communications Foundation, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• "Sankofa", a song from the album Blue Light 'til Dawn by Cassandra Wilson
• Sankofa (oogenus), an oogenus of bird-like eggs of a dinosaur species
• Sankofa Square, formerly Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto, Canada

People:

• Mika'il Sankofa, U.S. sabre fencer and coach
• Norman Sankofa, a fictional character on the British television soap opera Hollyoaks
• Osei Sankofa, an English footballer
• Shaka Sankofa, a Texas death-row inmate sentenced in 1981
• Theo Sankofa, a fictional character on the long British television soap opera Hollyoaks

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