Terms

Last updated November 9, 2026

Using Sankofa Records

Sankofa Records is a free historical archive. Every fact in our stories is marked with its source so you can check it yourself. History is studied and debated, so each record shows how sure it is: proven, likely, disputed, tradition or legend. We correct records when better evidence is found.

Advertising

We accept ads from businesses and organizations whose ads are honest and fit the purpose of Sankofa Records: to research, preserve and share the history of Africa and its people. We welcome Black-owned businesses and community organizations.

We do not accept ads that are false or misleading, hateful, sexual, about weapons or gambling, or that ask for personal or financial information under false pretenses. Every claim in an ad (numbers, prices, results) must be true.

Approval

Every ad is looked at before it goes live, usually within a day. Sankofa Records has the final say on which ads run and may stop an ad that breaks these Terms.

Payment and refunds

Ads are paid in advance through Stripe for the number of days shown on the Advertise page. If we do not approve your ad, your payment is refunded in full. Once an ad is approved and running, the payment is final. If an ad does not show because of a fault on our side, we add the missing days or refund them.

An ad stops by itself at the end of its days. We email a reminder a few days before, with a link to renew.

Ad pictures

You must own or have the right to use everything in your ad picture. You let us show it on Sankofa Records for the days you paid for.

The Sankofa Blog

The Sankofa Blog is a space where members share their own thoughts and information. Posts and comments are the views of the members who write them. They are not part of the Sankofa Records archive and are not checked against its sources.

To post or comment you must join and confirm your email. A new member's first post is read before it appears. Posts are up to 300 words and comments up to 50 words. Do not post anything false about real people, hateful, sexual, threatening, spam or advertising, or anything you do not have the right to share. Readers can report a post or a comment. Sankofa Records may remove any post or comment and may close any account that breaks these Terms.

Changes

We may update these Terms. The date at the top shows the latest version.