The Black Business Student Association (BBSA), National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), and Student African American Brotherhood (SAAB) chapters of California State University, Long Beach are pleased to present “Sankofa”.
Whatever we have lost, forgotten, forgone or been stripped of can be reclaimed, revived, preserved and perpetuated.
Sankofa is scheduled to be held on Thursday, December 6, 2007, at 6:30 p.m., at The Pointe in the Pyramid at California State University, Long Beach.
All CSULB students, alumni, faculty, and corporate partners are welcome to attend. BBSA, NSBE, and SAAB are providing a dynamic speaker series consisting of Johnel Langerston an Entrepreneur and Founder of "Phat EFX", Latesha Young of Northrop Grumman, and Doris Elvoy the Commissioner of the Port of Long Beach to encourage and motivate students to forge ahead in college toward a graduate degree and become a leader of tomorrow.
Sankofa means "go back to the past in order to build for the future," or we should not forget our past when moving ahead. We should learn from the past and move forward into the future. Sankofa is a realization of self and spirit. It represents the concepts of self-identity, redefinition and vision. It symbolizes an understanding of one's destiny and collective identity of the larger cultural group.
Sankofa is symbolic of the spiritual mind-set and cultural awakening African people were experiencing in the decades after independence on the African continent. The Sankofa bird is used to represent Sankofa. The symbol is of a bird turning its head backward with its long beak is turned in the direction of its tail.
Making positive progress through the benevolent use of knowledge,
Andre Stutts
President
National Society of Black Engineers
California State University, Long Beach
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