FOOTPRINTS OF PAN AFRICANISM is a documentary film directed by filmmaker and Sankofa Bookstore co-founder, Shirikiana Aina. This film revisits the era of Ghana's independence and the brief period in which Africans on the continent and in the Diaspora participated in building a liberated territory that can be called the greatest experiment of Pan Africanism to take place since the calamity of slavery. FOOTPRINTS OF PAN AFRICANISM recounts the powerful bonds that were created between Africans on the continent and in the Diaspora to recover from the impact of slavery and colonialism.

Dorothy, an African American woman living on welfare in Watts, California, struggles to raise her daughter while her partner T.C. a discharged Vietnam veteran who thought he would return home to a "hero's welcome." is unjustly imprisoned.

The story of a Black Vietnam veteran suffering from post war trauma. Encouraged and provoked by the love and chastisement of his grandmother and friends he is transformed from a bitter ex-soldier to a strong and confident man. By Haile Gerima 1982/Color/120 minutes/Drama Awards: FIPRESCI Prize, Grand Prix

African American filmmaker Shirikiana Aina's personal confrontation of the slave trade. By following her father's footsteps, she returns to Africa, at night, by the water, the way her ancestors left, back through the door of no return.