Sankofa is a term in Twi, a dialect of the Akan language in Ghana. It means “go back and get it.”*
Seth Godin

There was a daimon in me, and in the end its presence proved decisive … I had to hasten on, to catch up with my vision. Since my contemporaries, understandably, could not perceive my vision, they saw only a fool rushing ahead.**
Carl Jung

I always forget something when I go on a trip or a journey,
But fortunately the kind of thing I can get by without or replace;
What I can’t get by without, or find some substitute for, is
my purpose –
I’ve got to take it everywhere, so if I forget it for a moment,
Please excuse me while I go back and get it.

*Seth Godin’s The Song of Significance;
**Victor Strecher’s Life on Purpose.