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===== 3. Sankofa – “Go back and fetch it” (Ghana / Akan) =====

Core idea
Progress requires returning to the past to retrieve what is valuable and unfinished—memory as an active resource, not nostalgia.

FOW connections
* Learning & AI – Instead of treating knowledge as disposable project dust, build “Sankofa loops”: formal rhythms where teams revisit old decisions/data to inform new cycles, especially as AI systems amplify historical bias.
* Governance – Institutionalize retrospective spaces (physical and temporal) where past experiments are unpacked and fed into strategy—retros as civic ritual, not just agile ceremony.
* Workplace typologies – “Archives of practice” inside offices: walls, digital canvases, or galleries that show the history of how the organization learns, not just brand slogans.