Hangman • Sankofa Suite
Diaspora words • Afrofuturist backdrops
Welcome to Hangman • Sankofa Suite
Guess words from Black history, language, music, foodways, and the global diaspora. Every solved word jumps you to a new scene — from Nubia and Harlem to Afrofuturist skylines.
Tip: Each time you solve a word, a new background is chosen at random from your 10 custom images in assets/ui/.
Keyboard: M mute/unmute • Enter start game
Nubia Temple
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Mode: classic
Lives: 6
Score: 0
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Word Packs
Early pack includes:
- sankofa — Akan principle of “go back and get it”
- timbuktu — center of learning in Mali
- highlife — guitar-led Ghanaian music
- jollof — West African rice dish
- maroon — freedom communities of escaped enslaved Africans
- griot — West African storyteller and historian
- uhuru — Swahili word for “freedom”
- diaspora — scattered but connected communities
Expand later with Kreyòl, Yoruba, Swahili, and Afrofuturist vocab packs.