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Record W4409797343 · doi:10.3138/topia-2024-0001

“Sankɔfa has suffered”—On Melancholy, Diaspora and Refuge

2024· article· en· W4409797343 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Evelyn Amponsah

Bibliographic record

VenueTOPIA Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicRace, History, and American Society
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDiasporaHistoryGeographyAnthropologySociologyGender studies

Abstract

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In 2007, an apology was made by the nation of Ghana to descendants of trans-Atlantic slaves. Along with this apology came the Joseph Project—Ghana’s attempt to reconcile and provide reparations to the slave babies to evoke Hartman (2008) . Ghana attempted to evoke its own “Josephs” to embark on a journey of reconciliation and (re) connection. The Ghanaian state articulated this project in terms of the responsibility of the diaspora to its African brothers and sisters as well as to the “homeland,” calling upon the notion of Sankɔfa, which emphasizes a wisdom in the concept of return. Ghana made several calls to the diaspora to return, invest and support their brothers and sisters. Such collective apologies have necessarily proven to be phenomena of the 20th–21st centuries, yet Ghana’s 2007 apology and the Joseph Project are riddled with contradictions. Not only do they conceal the historical relations which allowed the trans-Atlantic slave trade to flourish but it also appropriates the radicalness of the Pan-African movement to ensure “investments” and, by doing so, distorts Sankɔfa.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.551
Threshold uncertainty score0.993

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.061
GPT teacher head0.332
Teacher spread0.271 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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