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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 machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.033
Threshold uncertainty score0.066

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0190.026
Scholarly communication0.0060.006
Open science0.0010.008
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.001

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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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