The linking of our ancestors who are gone, ourselves here, those coming, our continuation, our flowing along our living way, the way: it is that remembrance that calls us. That remembrance not only birthed successive waves of global insurrection, but directed the everyday lives of millions of forcibly dislocated Africans.
In his epic 1973 masterpiece, Two Thousand Seasons, Ghanian novelist Ayi Kwei Armah framed the whole of Black life as one of remembrance. "The linking of those gone, ourselves here, those coming, our continuation, our flowing... along our living way, the way: it is that remembrance that calls us," he wrote; that remembrance not only birthed successive waves of global insurrection, but directed the everyday lives of millions of forcibly dislocated Africans; and that remembrance is what inspired the making of "Ancestral Voices: Spirit Is Eternal", the groundbreaking two-part documentary film from London-based filmmakers Dalian and Verona-Spence Adofo.
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