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I am a co-facilitator of the Pan Afrikan Youth Support Action Circle (PAYSAC) and Oxford Coalition of Black Communities and Communities of Colour (OCCCC), and a member of the Global Majority vs the UK Government (GMvs).
- Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford (RMFO)
- Oxford Coalition of Black Communities and Communities of Colour (OCCCC)
- Pan Afrikan Youth Support Action Circle (PAYSAC)
- Global Majority vs the UK Government (GMvs)
- Stop the Maangamizi
When I arrived in Oxford, in September 2020, I joined the movement Rhodes Must Fall for which I am now a media, outreach and partnerships officer. We carry out protests, marches and campaigns against racism, but also against climate injustice, because the environmental crisis deeply affects our communities. My role in Rhodes Must Fall entails that I am in contact with local politicians, community groups but also youth activist networks and students in Oxford. Rhodes Must Fall seeks to always connect and engage injoint actions with other activist groups such as Extinction Rebellion, Stand Up To Racism, Oxford Unity, Acorn, Black Lives Matter Oxford and Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the Oxford Coalition of Black Communities.
Reparations constitute the need to correct the harm done to Africans and people of African descent by slavery, colonialism, imperialism, neo-colonialism and extractivism to enable them to reverse the long history of underdevelopment. Descendants of those who were subjected to these atrocities should receive financial compensation for the damage that has been done to the generations whose lives were directly affected. They call for the cancellation of the debt of Caribbean countries based on colonial slavery and the right of African descendants around the world to return to an African homeland, if they so wish, through an internationally supported resettlement programme. Reparations is not just about money - it is a plea for collective restoration, to recover something on behalf of those who lost their labour or their lives to powerful white governments and institutions.