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These Ancestral Messages Have Been Hiding In Plain Sight

Black History Year

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Two Minute Black History: What You Don't Learn in School

We all know these iron fences when we see them, but little do we know they're holding hidden ancestral messages in plain sight. A Dinkra symbols come from the Akan people of West African countries like Ghana and represent symbolic life proverbs. Sankofa means to return and get it, but sometimes it is interpreted as it is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten. Taking heed to the ancestral messages intentionally left behind for us is a necessary part of our resilience.

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