Description

Sankofa is Thandiswa’s fourth studio album. Sankofa is a Ghanian Twi word that means ‘to go back and fetch what has been left behind’. The making of this work has embodied that idea. Recorded in Johannesburg, Dakar, and New York, the album combines archival Xhosa samples (which were sourced from the International Library of African Music at Rhodes University), jazz and west African music. It includes collaborations with Meshell Ndegeocello, Chris Bruce, Nduduzo Makhathini Thandi Ntuli, and Tendai Shoko