Sunz of Sankofa Music collective provides narration for the entire clan's movement and chronicle.

Travel to the core of the "Sunz" and you'll find HRU Yuya Assaan and Kamau Ptah exploring new and inventive ways to articulate the precepts of Truth, Rightfulness, Harmony, Balance, Order, Reciprocity, Propriety and all of the other governing principles that those who consider themselves Master Scholars; through the voicing of spoken word, acoustic instrumentation, Hip-Hop, Turntabalism, Jazz, Gospel, and praise.

You can hear some of our sounds on Myspace.

"We make music for the Masters...theme music for those who've embarked on the journey of Self mastery.

Our core purpose is To:
1. express authentic music that derives from indigenous sounds/musical formulas.
2. deliberately integrate metaphysical principles into our orchestration.
3. create music that focus on the crown and heart chakras.
4. infuse ancient African concepts into contemporary music.
5. create music that is consistent with the indigenous African perception of music.
6. advance concepts of artist who have embraced the traditional concept of African music (i.e. Coltrane, Marley, Tosh, Fela, Public Enemy, Gil Scott Heron, The Last Poets, KRS-1, etc).
7. establish a creative exploration think tank among artist who embrace and live by indigenous principles.
8. apply the Nguzo Saba into our musical expression and economic ventures.
9. establish venues for our youth to create self-affirming and value-centered art

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