Jan 7, 2026 · 23 min · 11 segments
In this Stitch Please Sankofa episode, host Lisa from Black Women’s Stitch opens 2026 with a reflective 2025 year in review, grounded in the West African principle of Sankofa: learning from the past…
For the last few years, I have been offering what I've called Sankofa episodes.
Sankofa is the understanding that it is not taboo to go back and retrieve what has been lost or forgotten.
It helps us to understand that we can move forward while still turning our heads back to gather what we need.
Sankofa is usually visually represented as intertwining hearts or my favorite is a bird with its feet planted, body facing forward, head turned back.
The picture illustrates that the bird has clearly forgotten the egg and it went back and got it.
I'm doing this year review to look back into 2025 and to think about the four categories that made up that year's highlights.
For the last few years, I have been offering what I've called Sankofa episodes.
Sankofa is the understanding that it is not taboo to go back and retrieve what has been lost or forgotten.
It helps us to understand that we can move forward while still turning our heads back to gather what we need.
Sankofa is usually visually represented as intertwining hearts or my favorite is a bird with its feet planted, body facing forward, head turned back.
The picture illustrates that the bird has clearly forgotten the egg and it went back and got it.
I'm doing this year review to look back into 2025 and to think about the four categories that made up that year's highlights.
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