Sankofa

Go back and get it.

An AI griot that tells your ancestral story — with watercolor imagery, voice narration, and honesty about what's remembered versus imagined.

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The Gap

For millions of people in the African, Caribbean, and South Asian diasporas, heritage exists only as fragments. A family name. A region mentioned once by a grandparent. A tradition no one can fully explain.

Existing tools give data. Sankofa tells a story.

How It Works

You give the griot a few seeds — a surname, a region, an era. The griot returns a multi-act narrative with AI-generated watercolor imagery, voice narration, ambient soundscapes, and trust indicators marking what is documented, what is cultural, and what is imagined.

Historical

Documented facts

Cultural

Known traditions

Reconstructed

Informed imagination

After the story, the griot stays. You can ask follow-up questions about what was left out.

The Promise

The griot will never pretend to know what it doesn't. Every segment is tagged so you know what is remembered versus what is imagined.

Heritage deserves honesty, not confidence.

“Se wo were fi na wosankofa a yenkyi” — It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.