“Sankofa” is derived from the Akan language, specifically the Twi language spoken by the Akan people of Ghana. The concept is visually represented by a stylized image of a bird with its head turned backward while its feet face forward, symbolizing the act of looking back to retrieve or reclaim something valuable from the past. Here’s a description of Sankofa:

African tribal dolls are carved in wood by the blacksmith, initially for the play of little girls. But these dolls are mainly used by sterile women in complex fertility rituals, the doll becomes a surrogate child that they will treat as such.