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Fly on the Wallin with Amber and Ben

Merging Past and Present with "Sankofa" | Episode 68

Fly on the Wallin with Amber and Ben

The Sci-Fi Sigh Podcast

Tv & Film

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In a world where we have access to revered ruins, and a camera phone in every pocket, Sankofa asks the question “ what remains sacred?” We thank Halie Gerima for this powerful, self-made film, and we stan Ava Duvernay for getting Netflix on board, so that modern day audiences may experience the merger between the past and present.

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0:00.0

Hey listeners, it's your girl Amber and this is your reminder at the top of the episode

0:07.1

to join our Patreon.

0:10.6

So we just had three new patrons come on over to the dark side, the science fiction and

0:17.1

fantastical side, huge shout out to Genesis, Kia and Taylor.

0:22.4

As you also know we do a monthly book revel for our patrons and last month we gave away

0:29.2

the city we became jazz, the city we became is coming your way.

0:33.0

We were getting our nursery together frame, but I got you, I'm sending it out tomorrow.

0:37.1

The book we'll be giving away next month is The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.

0:42.2

We read that book on the show, so we will be giving away that book, not on that date.

0:48.2

We'll be giving away that book in February, so that's going to be great.

0:55.2

So now with that being said, just a reminder, if you are looking to join our Patreon it is,

1:01.0

you can find that link in the episode notes and it's just a monthly contribution.

1:04.8

You can give $1, $2, $5 a month, it's easy, easy, easy, okay, let's get started with

1:09.9

the show.

1:10.9

Let's get this pussy pop, yes, is that kind of show?

1:17.6

Watch me work, man.

1:18.6

Watch me work.

1:19.6

Welcome to the side by side under the believe podcast network, it's a podcast about black

1:24.7

science fiction and fantasy and staying on the same page of our marriage.

1:30.1

Today for episode 68, we'll be discussing the film San Cofa by highly garema.

1:37.4

I know listeners last week I talked about how we were going to watch Needle in a time

1:41.6

stack, but we went on Amazon Prime and Amazon was like, this movie will be completely free

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