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KOFI MAWULI KLU
Kofi Mawuli Klu is an
Independent Scholar-Activist
Researcher, Community
Advocate and Educationist
who specialises in Pan-Afrikan
Community Law-related
matters of Global Citizenship
Education, particularly those
of Decoloniality Cognitive
Justice in the ‘glocal’
upholding, defence and
promotion of Human, Peoples’
and Mother Earth Rights. A
Jurisconsult in terms of
professional educational
background, he champions
Law as Resistance in the best
traditions of the School of
Critical Legal Praxis. His
Jurisconsult specialisation in
the Praxis of Law as
Resistance encompasses
‘Glocal’ Community
Advocacy for Global Justice,
including Critical Educational Counteraction of Miseducation, Peoples’ Empowerment
Conscientization and Participatory Action Learning/Research. Apart from running his own Law-
Related Educational Services Agency, UEQUIPOISE, he is also the Chief Executive Commissioner
of PANAFRIINDABA, which is a Grassroots Pan-Afrikan Community Advocacy, Research and
Think Tank. He is one of the founding Joint International Coordinators of the Global Justice Forum
(GJF).
Kofi has served as a Research Fellow in the School of Geography of the University of Leeds where,
as in other institutions of education in and outside the United Kingdom, he makes occasional Scholar-
Activist guest contributions to various courses, seminars, workshops, conferences and Groundings on
Afrika, Pan-Afrikanism, Global Justice, Activism and Social Change. Indeed, from his early student
radical pathfinding days of always seeking to break new grounds of innovatively advancing Scholar-
Activism from the grassroots of Youth Revolutionary Pioneering and Communities of Resistance, he
has co-organised, facilitated and participated in countless curricular and extra-curricular activities of
mural and extra-mural education in various schools, colleges, universities and other places of
Learning, including Community Spaces of Lifelong Learning (COSOLLs), all over the World, such
as the SRYLOG Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah Youth and Student Pioneering Underground Railschool
(SRYLOG-OKNYSPUR), the Forum of Nkrumaist Thought and Action (FONTA), the Carlota-Che
Open School of Venceremos (CCOSOV), the Pushkin-LeninNadezhda-Lumumba Open Groundings
of Critical Soviet Action Learning (PLLOGOCSAL), the MAATUBUNTUNYANSA Pan-Afrikan
Wisdomquest Commons of Global Justice Internationalist Lifelong Learning
(MAATUBUNTUNYANSA-PAWCOGJILL), the Rendezvous of Victory Peoples’ University of
Lifelong Learning (ROV-PULL), the Afrikan Reparations Transnational Community of Practice
(ARTCoP), the Decolonialty Open Concourses (DOCs) and the emergent glocal curves of the Big
Circle of Interconnexion of the Global AcademyCommons – building-in-progress (GACs-bip).
Included in the foremost organisations, networks and campaigns in which he is involved, mostly
based in Europe and Afrika, are the the ASASEYAAMMA Pan-Afrikan Green Campaign for Global
Justice, the Pan-Afrikan Community Educational Services (PACES), the UBUNTUMAFUNZOSA
Pan-Afrikan Campaign for Popular Education, the Pan-Afrikan Fora International Support
Coordinating Council (PAFISCC), the Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe (PARCOE), the
Activism and Academia Fora International Movement (AAFIM) and the Grassroots South-North
Internationalist Forum (GRASSNIF).
He brings to these roles his vast didactic experience of continuing to work for many years at local,
national and international levels within a wide array of organisations, networks and campaigns.
Among the various positions of distinguished service he held were the Chair of the Management
Committee of the Brixton Community Law Centre (BCLC), in the London Borough of London, going
on to become the National Secretary of the Law Centres Federation (LCF) of the United Kingdom,
and also serving as the International Coordinator of the Jubilee 2000 AFRICAMPAIGN as well as a
Joint Coordinator of Rendezvous of Victory (ROV). He also specializes in glocal Lifelong Learning
innovations of Global Citizenship Education and runs a rich diversity of conscientizational
programmes, courses and training initiatives in various institutions and community spaces of mural
and extra-mural education in Europe, Afrika and other parts of the World. Kofi is widely known for
his passionate championing of Pan-Afrikan Knowledge Integration into Global Citizenship Education,
particularly Anti-Slavery Heritage Awareness as germaine to Pan-Afrikan Community Regeneration
for Sustainable World Development in pursuit of Global Justice for All.
EMail: [email protected]
Website: www.panafriindaba.wordpress.com
Areas of Research Interest and Key Matters of Scholar-Activist Practice
Pan-Afrikan Knowledge Integration into Global Citizenship Education; Decoloniality and Cognitive
Justice; Power, Knowledge and Education/Miseducation/Conscientization; Exclusions in Education;
Learner-Centred Education; Pedagogy of Liberation; Eco-Literacy and Ecopedagogy; Mural and
Extra-Mural Education; Lifelong Learning; Building the Global AcademyCommons;
Pan-Afrikan Community Law; Pan-Afrikanism; Pan-Afrikan Reparations for Global Justice; Pan-
Afrikan Liberation Theology for Global Justice Conscientization; Pan-Afrika, Global Apartheid
Spatial Racism, Geopolitics, Political Ecology and Pluriversality in Global Justice Studies;
Law as Resistance Praxis; Critical Law-Related Education; Grassroots Lawyering in International
Community Defence of Human, Peoples’ and Mother Earth Rights; Legal and Extra-Legal
Freedomfighting; Law and Communities of Resistance; Earth Jurisprudence;
‘Glocal’ Community Empowerment; Underdevelopment/Maldevelopment/Development; ‘Glocal’
Community Regeneration for Sustainable World Development; Right to the City; Ecological
Harmonisation of the Built and Natural Environment; ‘Glocal’ Citizenship Education for Sustainable
World Development towards Global Justice;
Boys/Men in Girls’/Women’s Empowerment; Gender Empowerment; Intersectionality in
Decoloniality Perspectives of Social Justice;
Youth and Students’ Empowerment, Mentoring and Guidance; Youth and Intersectionality in
Community Empowerment; Youth Pathways to Global Justice Scholar-Activism; Intersectionality for
Global Justice Intergenerational Dialogue; SANKOFAUBUNTUMOJA Intergenerational
Harmonisation in Uniting Humanity for Global Justice;
Organising for Changemaking; ‘Glocalization’ and International Community Organising; Political
Parties; Social Movement Building for Global Justice. ‘Ubuntu’ People-to-Peoples’ Internationalist
Solidarity; Peoples’ Internationalist Diplomacy for Global Justice.
Productions
Publications:
Citizenship Education in the Light of Pan-Afrikan Resistance to the ‘Maangamizi’ in the book entitled
From Slavery To Citizenship by Professor Richard Ennals, 2007, John Wiley and Sons Ltd.,
Chichester.
Reparations Landmarks in the United
Kingdom and other contributions to
ABENG SOUNDINGS: Abolitionist
Landmarks of Our Freedommarch co-
edited by Esther Stanford and Simon
Murray, 2008, Southwark 2007 and
Beyond (S2007B).
Looking to Nkrumah: Changemaking and
Ghana’s Political Economy in
Pambazuka, 2009-06-18.
Contributions to other publications such
as "The Transatlantic Slave Trade and its
Legacies" by Lloyd Evering, Kofi Mawuli
Klu and Richard Reddie, Set All Free,
2007; "Slavery Yesterday, Today But Not
Tomorrow", by Kofi Mawuli Klu, Linda
Perks and Alan Jarman,
UNISON 2007; "200 years On: the
Legacies of Enslavement and Abolition",
World Development Movement (WDM),
2007; “Cross-Community Dialogue
Facilitation Toolkit”, compiled by Esther
Stanford, 2007, Grassroots Rising and SAVOS.
Served as a Co-Editor of, and also wrote for the Journal OSAGYEFO and the Newsletter Kantamanto,
both publications of Nkrumaist Revoutionary Thought and Action, published in the 1980s-1990s, and
circulated from London, United Kingdom.
Serves currently as the Editor-in-Chief of OYESEYIE Online: an E-Journal of the Global Justice
Forum (GJF) and the Grassroots South-North Internationalist Forum (GRASSNIF).
Film/Video: Co-Director of "PYRAMIDQUEST-Agooo!", a PAYSIL collaboration with ROV, the
British Museum and others, 2007-2008.
Lectures and other Presentations
Too many to list. Among recent highlights are:-
Preparing on the Pan-Afrikan Internationalist Wings of Sankofa for a Global Justice Wisdomquest
Grounding With Our Ancestral Sheroes and Heroes: A PASHOC Door-Opening to Pan-Afrikanism in
Global Justice Studies, 12th January 2015; at a special Seminar of the Pan-Afrikan Sheroes and
Heroes Open College (PASHOC), with the CARAT@MDR, May Day Rooms (MDR), London,
United Kingdom.
Giving Substance to the Legal and Extra-Legal Dimensions of the Right to Afrika: An INAPP
Response to the UN Proclaimed ‘International Decade for Peoples of African Descent’, 6th January
2015; at the Community Law Study, Dialogue and Action Circle of the Legal and Constitutional Sub-
Committee of the Interim
National Afrikan People’s
Parliament (INAPP),
Queen Mother Moore
School (QMMS),
Methodist Church,
Clapham, London, United
Kingdom.
MXCC: Towards an X-
Community Empowering
Living Constitution, 18th
December 2014; at the
Malcolm X Community
Centre (MXCC), Bristol,
United Kingdom.
Revolutionary
Intercommunalism in the
Global Justice Strategy
for Reparations, 15th
November 2014; a
contribution alongside
Diana Salazar of UCL-
UoL, to a Workshop of
the 14th-15th November
2014 Conference of the
Annual Sovereign
Peoples’ Planet Repairs
International Network-
Groundings for Global Justice Action on Reparations (SPPRINGGJAR), launching the Popular Civil
Society Forum for Reparations in the United Kingdom (POCSFOR-UK), co-organised by the Pan-
Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe (PARCOE), the Students’ Action for Global Justice
Internationalist Society (SAGJIS) and the Global Justice Forum (GJF).
Ivory Tower Euro-America: Beacon or Bane of Academic Freedom for the Rest of the World?, 25th
October 2014; a contribution to the Global AcademyCommons Exhibition Series Presentation
organised alongside the ROOTSGROUNDINGS: Rendezvous of Victory Edutainment Ramparts
(RROVER) by the CAFA Archival Resources Action Team (CARAT) in the May Day Rooms
(MDR), London, United Kingdom.
MAATUBUNTUMAN: Pan-Afrika is Our Reparations!, 12th October 2014; a joint contribution with
Pitchou Kampila Wa Nzokiesse Bulay to the ‘International Day for Reparations Relating to
Civilization’ Event on Enriching Public Discourse – Empowering African People, an initiative of the
Department of Philosophy of the University College London (UCL), University of London (UoL), in
partnership with the Afrikan Reparations Transnational Community of Practice (ARTCoP), held at the
Black Cultural Archives (BCA), Windrush Square, Brixton, in London, United Kingdom.
Education and Gender in Activism and Academia Intersections for Cognitive Justice, 13th September
2014; a joint contribution together with Sumana Nandi of the School of Oriental and African Studies
(SOAS), University of London (UoL), to a Workshop of the 12th-13th September 2014 First Activism
and Academia Forum International Conference (AAFIC-1), hosted by the Centre for World
Environmental History (CWEH), at the University of Sussex (US), Falmer, Brighton, United
Kingdom.
Combatting Afriphobia in Europe for the Anti-Racist Decolonization of Minds to Win Global Justice
for All: The Pan-Afrikan Imperative of our Global Citizenship Role in Helping Norway to Fulfill Her
Responsibilities, 24th May 2014; a contribution to the Africa Liberation Day/Black Professionals
Dinner of the Africa Centre for Information and Development (ACID) at the Intercultural Museum, in
Oslo, Norway.
Pan-Afrikanism in the 21st Century, 7th May 2014; a Lecture and Discussions organised by the Oxford
Pan-African Forum (OPAF), held in Pembroke College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United
Kingdom.
The 21st Century Challenge of Pan-Afrikanism: Counteracting the Violence of Imperialism with
Reparations, Community Unionism and Grassroots People’s Self-Empowerment, 15th February 2014;
at an Interdisciplinary Conference on Geographies of Neoliberalism and Resistance After the Crisis:
The State, Violence and Labour, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Grassroots Scholar-Activism as a Pan-Afrikan Reparations Challenge of Rescuing Nkrumah’s
‘Flower of Learning’ in Ghana Towards the Global Justice Commoning of Academia in Afrika, 18th
January 2014; at the Grassroots Scholar-Activism for Commoning Academia in Afrika Seminar
conjointly organised by PANAFRIINDABA, the UBUNTUMAFUNZOSA Pan-Afrikan Campaign
for Popular Education, the Activism and Academia Forum of the University of Sussex – Ghana
Engagement Link (AAFUS-GEL), the Pan-Afrikan Forum of Ghana (PAFOG) and the Climate
Alliance of Ghana for Sustainable World Development (CAGSWOD) [now the Environmental Justice
Alliance of Ghana for Sustainable World Development (EJAGSWOD)], with the support of others; at
the Nunyansagble Annex Commonspace, Nsawam, in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
International Solidarity in Strengthening Grassroots Community Resistance for Environmental
Justice in West Afrika, 27th September 2013; a contribution alongside Vanessa Vine of the No
Fracking in Balcombe Campaign, West Sussex, to the Activism and Academia Forum of the
University of Sussex (AAFUS), hosted by the Centre for World Environmental History (CWEH) at
the University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom.
Currently Ongoing Work
While continuing to conduct probing
explorations into the matters of Action
Research interest outlined above, the
focus of currently ongoing Scholar-
Activist work is upon the following:-
Contributing to the grassroots
Pan-Afrikan Community Advocacy,
Research and Think Tank work of
PANAFRIINDABA;
Contributing, as the Chair of
the Project Development Commission,
to steering the planning and
groundwork for building the
NUNYANSAFIE Pan-Afrikan Action
Learning Complex for Global
Citizenship Education
(NUNYANSAFIE-PAALCOGCE) in
Mawununyansabome in Nsawam, in the
Eastern Region of Ghana; making this
conducive also to the establishment, in
the same location, of the International
Scientific Observatory on Development
in Africa (ISODA); doing this in such a
way as to strengthen the growing
foundational cornerstones of the
NUNYANSAFIE such as the
UBUNTUMAFUNZOSA Open College
of Lifelong Learning
(UBUNTUMAFUNZOSA-OCOLL),
the POWERNETWORK-Nutroza and
the AYEKOOO Social Enterprise
Action Learning Alliance for
Community Empowerment
(AYEKOOO-SEALACE);
Contributing, as the Principal
Co-Learning Facilitator, to the steady
development of the Pan-Afrikan
Sheroes and Heroes Open College
(PASHOC) out of the Queen-Mother
Moore Educational Complex Campaign
(QMMEC), based in the Queen-Mother
Moore School (QMMS), in the
Methodist Church, Clapham of
Abolitionist Fame, in the London
Borough of Lambeth, United Kingdom; directing and facilitating the innovative participatory
learning and teaching of the PASHOC Pan-Afrikanism in Global Justice Studies Course,
including its Action Research engagement in progressing constructive work on the Global
Justice Institute of the Global Justice Forum (GJI-GJF), promoting also the Decoloniality
Open Concourses (DOCs) in close link with the global Decoloniality movement, as well as
sharing such efforts with the CARAT@MDR towards establishing the International Network
of Academic Freedom for Cognitive Justice (INAFCOJ) and contributing to building the
Global AcademyCommons (GACs);
Co-
facilitating the
Afrikan Reparations
Transnational
Community of
Practice (ARTCoP)
and enhancing
expertise in the
chosen area of its
work: The Cognitive
Justice
Harmonisation of
Reparatory Justice
Actions for the Pan-
Afrikan
Internationalist
Scholar-Activist
Advancement of
Planet Repairs
towards Global
Justice for All;
Co-directing the Schools and Communities’ Environmental History Action Learning
Explorations (SCEHALE), in link with endeavours such as the HOMOWOYAYA Operation
Farm to Feed and Empower Yourself (HOMOWOYAYA-OFFEY) and the Operation
Schools’ Greening for Glocal Environmental Justice (OSGGEJ), including the Biogas
Renewable Energy Project for Ecopedagy Action Learning (BREPEAL) in Ghana; utilising
the SCEHALE and its associated endeavours to promote, with the proactive assistance of the
Centre for World Environmental History (CWEH) and the Activism and Academia Fora,
grassroots creativity in the ‘glocal’ integration of Environmental History into Global
Citizenship Education for Sustainable World Development at all local, national and
international levels; emphasizing, in this connection, the Environmental Justice
Conscientization of youth and students to raise New Breeds of youthful Scholar-Activists not
only to enlarge the Activism and Academia Fora International Movement but also to better
promote Ubuntu People-to-Peoples’ Internationalist Solidarity Link-Networking through
genuine Peoples’ Internationalist Diplomacy, in order to more efficiently share knowledge,
skills and resources in championing full respect for, and the effective protection of
conscientious Defenders of, all Human, Peoples’ and Mother Earth Rights;
Co-directing participatory Action Research of the CAFA Archival Resources Action Team
(CARAT) into the archival materials of the erstwhile Committee for Academic Freedom in
Africa (CAFA), now deposited in the Archives of the May Day Rooms (MDR) in London,
United Kingdom;
Co-directing the Pan-Afrikan Community Law Action Learning for Self-Empowerment
(PACOLALSE) Programme and its Simba Grassroots Lawyering Accreditation Scheme
(SIMBA-GLAS) that is being carried out as a Community Action Learning experimental
project conjointly run by the Pan-Afrikan Community Educational Services (PACES), the
Pan-Afrikan Grassroots Advocacy Bloc of AMANDLA and the Global Afrikan People’s
Parliament in United Kingdom (GAAP-UK);
Co-facilitating the International Working Group of the People versus PFI Campaign in
London, United Kingdom, linked to the Peoples’ Rising Against the Globalising Greed of
Capital (PRAGGOC) joint initiative of the Global Justice Forum (GJF) and the Grassroots
South-North Internationalist Forum (GRASSNIF) and their allied organisations, networks and
campaigns; doing so with particular Action Research interest in link-networking together with
Scholar-Activists working on relevant issues such as Privatization, including the
Corporatization of educational institutions, other policies and manifestations of
Neoliberalism and all other germaine matters of Global Justice throughout the World;
Utilising the DUTROSAFO: Rebels in Cities Action Research work for the Scholar-Activist
promotion of the strengthening of glocal link-networking in better Internationalist defence of
the Right to the City;
Co-facilitating the Occupy London International Networking Group (OLING), with particular
interest in drawing its links all over the World into the circles and networks of the Activism
and Academia Fora International Movement; and connecting the Radical Occupy Spaces of
Popular Education (ROSOPEs) in schools, colleges, universities and other institutions into the
glocally participatory building of the Global AcademyCommons (GACs).
EDUCATION, TRAINING AND QUALIFICATIONS
Educational Background
Holds an LLM, with specialization in Constitutional Law, from the Patrice Lumumba Peoples’
Friendship University in Moscow (1986), in the then Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR);
together with a Certificate Accreditation of Experiential Learning from the University of North
London/ London Metropolitan University (2001), in London, United Kingdom; and also a Certificate
in Uniting Humanity: Learning Advocacy in World Citizenship, from the University of Gavle (2007),
in Gavle, Sweden; among others.
Among the most importantly vital educational stepping stones of Lifelong Learning upon which Kofi
Mawuli Klu continues to diligently progress, “marching forward ever”, the following are those to
which he gives topmost credit for continuing to shape his characteristic World Outlook of Pan-
Afrikan Internationalist Conscientization for Global Justice:-
1. the Sena Agbenorwu-Abrokwa and Adza-Do Tawiah Klu Nunyansa Academia Home-
Groundings of Lifelong Learning (SAAATKNAHGOLL);
2. the Niapa Wentum and Friends Open Groundings of Radical Explorations (NWAFOGORE);
3. the Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah Youth and Students’ Pioneering Underground Railschool
(OKNYSPUR);
4. the ALUTA Action Learning Open School of Youth and Student Activism (AALOSYSA);
5. the Johnny Hansen Open Groundings of Nkrumaist Thought and Action (JHOGONTA);
6. the Carlota-Che Open School of Venceremos (CCOSOV);
7. the Pushkin-LeninNadezhda-Lumumba Open Groundings of Critical Soviet Action Learning
(PLLOGOCSAL);
8. the MAATUBUNTUNYANSA Pan-Afrikan Wisdomquest Commons of Global Justice
Internationalist Lifelong Learning (MAATUBUNTUNYANSA-PAWCOGJILL);
9. the Global AcademyCommons – building-in-progress (GACs-bip).
The following are considered to be also importantly supplementary to the greater impact of the
above:-
May 2006 - March 2007 Uniting Humanity: Learning Advocacy in World Citizenship Course
(Certificate).
The Scarman Trust, London, UK, with various partners, including Kingston University, London, UK,
the University of Gavle, Gavle, Sweden, the Council for Education in World Citizenship (CEWC) and
the International Federation of Workers' Educational Associations (IFWEA).
April - July 2001 Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL).
University of North London (UNL)/London Metropolitan University (LMU).
Certificate in Human Rights Advocacy,
2001 Africa Course of the Education Action International Human Rights Advocacy Training
Programme,
Education Action International, London, United Kingdom.
February 2000 Business Start-Up Course (Certificate).
World University Service - Refugee Education, Training and Advice Service (WUS-RETAS),
London, United Kingdom.
January-February 2000 TRAILBLAZERS/National Children’s Bureau Young People’s Mentoring
Course.
TRAILBLAZERS, Her Majesty’s Young Offenders Institute (HMYOI), Feltham, London, United
Kingdom.
1995-1998 Community Legal Services Management Training.
Law Centres Federation (LCF), London/Sheffield, United Kingdom.
1980-1986 Master of Laws (LL.M) with specialisation in Constitutional Law.
Diploma in Russian-English Interpretation.
Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University, Moscow, USSR.
1979-1980 Certification to Study in the Russian Language.
Varonezh State University, Varonezh, Russia, USSR.
1977-1978 International Community and Youth Work Training.
Basic Spanish Language.
International Union of Students (IUS) Youth Brigade Work-Study Camp, Havana, Cuba.
1974-1976 Tamale Secondary School, Tamale, Northern Region, Ghana.
West African Examinations Council (WAEC) Advanced Level Certificate.
1972-1974 Ghana Secondary School, Tamale, Northern Region, Ghana.
West African Examinations Council (WAEC) Ordinary Level Certificate.
WORK EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS
SOCIAL ENTERPRISE DIRECTOR PANAFRIINDABA/ UEQUIPOISE
2005 - Present
Organising, managing and running, as a self-employed Managing Director, with the help mainly of
Volunteers, the UEQUIPOISE Social Enterprise of Advocacy, Consulting, Training and other
Educational Services, bespokenly tailored to suit concretely specific needs of Peoples' Empowerment,
Equitable Community Regeneration and Sustainable World Development in furtherance of
Global Justice for all. UEQUIPOISE embraces the PANAFRIINDABA Grassroots Pan-Afrikan
Community Advocacy, Research and Think Tank. Served, in this respect, as a Consultant, Researcher,
Writer and Lecturer-cum-Tutorial Guide for the UNISON Trade Union on the 2007 Bicentenary of
the British Parliamentary Abolition of the Transatlantic Traffick in Enslaved Afrikans as well as for
the National Union of Students - Black Students Campaign in the UK. Engaged also for consultations
on the "Resistance and Remembrance 2007 Commemorations" and the "PYRAMIDQUEST" Projects
by the British Museum; and also on the 2007-2008 "Slavery and the Natural World" Project by the
Natural History Museum (NHM), both in London, UK. Striving now to make, in this capacity, better
efficiently planned, economically viable and harmoniously managed contributions to the work of the
MAWUNUNYANSANKONSO and its Nunyansafie and the International Scientific Observatory on
Development in Africa (ISODA), the Pan-Afrikan Community Educational Services (PACES), the
AYEKOOO Social Enterprise Action Learning Alliance for Community Empowerment (AYEKOOO-
SEALACE), the Decoloniality Action Learning for Global Justice Internationalist Connexions
(DALGJIC) and their associated organisations, networks and campaigns in and beyond the United
Kingdom; as well as to consultations, speaking engagements, events organisation and other types
of germaine work in institutions of education, including museums (e.g. the Natural History Museum
and the British Museum in London, UK,) Community Spaces of Lifelong Learning and other places
of Mural and Extra-Mural Education.
VISITNG RESEARCH FELLOW University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. 2010 - 2011
Conducting self-organised independent research into "Pan-African Geopolitics in Critical Education
for Global Citizenship", with a research-cum-study-base in the School of Geography, Faculty of
Environment, University of Leeds; assisting with lectures, seminars, tutorials and other work relevant
to research subject-matter as well as to the MA Course in Activism and Social Change; supporting
and helping to develop outreach into wider circles of African and other Social Change Activists and
their communities, institutions, organisations, networks and campaigns; assisting the research and
teaching staff in the School of Geography, the Faculty of Environment, and elsewhere necessary
throughout the University of Leeds; assisting with advice, guidance and other useful forms of support
in the supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate students; networking locally, nationally and
internationally with individual and organised groups of Academics, mural and extra-mural educators,
Scholar-Activists, Action Research/Learning and Lifelong Learning enthusiasts, particularly those
interested or pursuing studies, research and/or other work germaine to the broad thematic area of Pan-
Afrikan Community Regeneration for Sustainable World Development in the perspectives of Critical
Geogragraphy.
COMMUNITY ADVOCATE Freelance, London, UK. 1990 - Present
Organising Advocacy Consultations, Training, Networking, Lobbying and Campaigning on the
defence of Afrikan Human, Peoples’ and Mother Earth Rights through the UHURU Pan-Afrikan
Advocacy for Human and Peoples’ Rights (UHURUPANADVOCACY), in collaboration with
GHANAKWAMBO, the Pan-Afrikan Freedom-Fighters' Asylum Campaign (PAFFAC), the Afrikan
Liberation Support Campaign (ALISC), the Pan-Afrikan Grassroots Educational Network (PAGEN),
upon the groundwork of which is now arising the Pan-Afrikan Community Educational Services
(PACES) and the Afrikan Reparations Transnational Community of Practice (ARTCoP), the
AFRIKALABASH, Grassroots Rising, the Forum of African Human Rights Defenders in Europe
(FAHRDE), Praxis and others. Utilising the UHURUPANADVOCACY to do the groundwork for the
emergence of AFRIKASOREE as well as of both the UEQUIPOISE Social Enterprise and
PANAFRIINDABA.
Providing Multicultural Orientation, Advice and Guidance to Clients of the Afrikan Refugees and
Migrants Monitoring Project (ARMMOP), and its Pan-Afrikan Freedom-Fighters Asylum Campaign
(PAFFAC), which developed into the UHURAMBEE Pan-Afrikan Community Self-Help Action for
Refugees and Migrants (UHURAMBEE-PACSHARM), affiliated to AFRIKALABASH; and also co-
managing further development of these projects into the Afrikan Migrants Anonymous (AMA), now
affiliated to PANAFRIINDABA; organising, facilitating and coordinating Asylum and Immigration
Rights Advocacy, Campaigning and Community developmental work pertaining to Refugees and
Migrants.
Promoting mentoring, guidance and other kinds of support for Students and Youth, with special
expertise in the needs of African students
and youth of African descent; providing
organizational skills training as well as
facilitating and supporting the building of
the All-Afrika Students Union Link in
Europe (AASULE), the EDIKANFO Pan-
Afrikan Youth and Students
Internationalist Link (EDIKANFO-
PAYSIL), the National Union of Students
- Black Students Campaign (NUS-BSC)
and the Planet Repairs Youth Positive
Action Campaign (PRYPAC); teaching in
Saturday Schools and other
supplementary educational facilities of the
Pan-Afrikan Community and helping with
various youth projects interested in Pan-
Afrikan Community Regeneration,
Empowerment and Global Citizenship
Education; visiting and helping to conscientise inmates of Young Offenders Institutes and other
penitentiaries.
Promoting Equal Opportunities Awareness through helping to organise the London Grassroots Forum
for Racial Justice (LONGFORJ) as a joint initiative of the ARMMOP and the Black Quest for Justice
Campaign (BQJC); and actively playing a leading role in the National Assembly Against Racism
(NAAR) in the UK as well as in the Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe (PARCOE).
Heading the Organising Secretariat of the Grassroots South-North Internationalist Forum
(GRASSNIF), coordinating its Rendezvous of Victory Dialogue Action Groups (ROVDAGs),
organising its Grassrootswatches, e.g. of the August-September 2001 World Conference Against
Racism (WOCAR) and facilitating its preparatory work towards building the Global Justice Forum
(GJF) and grassroots Activist participation in both the European Social Forum (ESF) and the World
Social Forum (WSF).
Designing
,
monitorin
g and
evaluating
Internatio
nal
Developm
ent
Projects
relating to
the
continent
and
diaspora
of Afrika;
assisting
in consult
ations,
research,
publicatio
ns, advocacy and speaking engagements with the World Development Movement (WDM) based in
London, UK; serving as a Pan-Afrikan Consultant on Global Justice and International Development to
the Directorate of One World Week (OWW); advising on the Voices from the South (VfS) and the
Reaching Out and Reaching South (ROARS) Projects and co-directing the One Love Task Force
(OLTF) in organising the annual One World Week Celebrations in London, UK; advising Anti-
Slavery International on the UNESCO ASPNET Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project and
helping to organise its October 2001 “Breaking the Silence - Realising the Expectations” Seminar; co-
founding Rendezvous of Victory (ROV) and serving as its Joint Coodinator; facilitating the 2007
Bicentenary Cross-Community Forum and its development into the Global Justice Forum (GJF).
Served between 1998-2000 as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Jubilee 2000 United
Kingdom Coalition as well as the International Coordinator of the Jubilee 2000 Afrika Campaign
(J2000 AFRICAMPAIGN).
Promoting the popularisation of the theory and practice of Critical Jurisprudence; helping to plan,
manage and supervise the delivery of Community Legal Services; served between 1994-1998 as a
Member/Director and became the Chair of the Management Committee of the Brixton Community
Law Centre (BCLC); rose from being a Member of the National Executive Committee to become the
National Secretary of the Law Centres Federation (LCF) of the United Kingdom.
RESEARCHER PLPFU, Moscow, USSR. 1985-1990
Conducted research in the Departments of Philosophy as well as of the Theory and History of State
and Law of the Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University in Moscow, USSR, into Afrikan
Problems of State and Law. Work responsibilities included designing, implementing and evaluating
strategies of Research into Afrikan problems of State, Law and Justice; gathering, collating and
processing Research Data; making Research presentations; supporting Lecturers and students as a
volunteer Teaching Assistant; organising
tutorials, colloquia, seminars, workshops,
conferences, teach-ins, etc; reviewing
books, journals, pamphlets, feature articles
and other academic as well as non-
academic publications; counselling
Afrikan students, providing them with
appropriate orientation, advice and
guidance as well as helping to facilitate
their study groups, clubs and other self-
organised bodies for curricular and extra-
curricular activities.
YOUTH RIGHTS
CAMPAIGNER GPSC/GCPPSF,
Accra, Ghana. 1976-1985
Worked as the Student and Youth Rights
Defence Coordinator of the Ghana Peace
and Solidarity Council (GPSC), and its
offshoot, the Ghana Council for Peace,
Peoples’ Solidarity and Friendship
(GCPPSF), based at the People’s Popular
Chambers of the Human Rights Lawyer
Mr. Johnny F.S. Hansen in Accra, Ghana;
served as the GCPPSF Liaison with the
Socialist Revolutionary Youth League of
Ghana (SRYLOG), the Student Movement
for African Unity (SMAU), the Pan-African Youth Movement (PANYMO); the Ghana United
Nations Students Association (GUNSA), the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) and its filials
in Europe, as well as the All-African Students Union (AASU); co-organised the Osagyefo Kwame
Nkrumah Youth and Students’ Pioneering Underground Railschool (OKNYSPUR); spearheaded
groundwork for building the Kwame Nkrumah United Ghana Front for Revolutionary Democracy
(KNUGFRED) and the Movement of Ghanaian Youth and Students and Working People for
Revolutionary Democracy (MOGYASWPRED); served as the Founding Editor of KPETEKPLE, “the
Ghanaian Youth Journal for People’s Democracy”, launched and ran by the SRYLOG; organised,
coordinated and fund-raised for the KPETEKPLE Human and Peoples’ Rights Youth Defenders
Network; served also as a member of the Editorial Board of ALUTA, the Central Organ of the
National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS); assisted in running the International Secretariat of the
All-African Students Union (AASU) in Accra, Ghana; helped to liaise between the NUGS, AASU
and the International Union of Students (IUS); helped to strengthen unity among various sections of
the students and youth and between them and the various democratic forces of Civil Society at local,
national, Pan-Afrikan and international levels.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Languages: Ewe, English, Russian, Spanish.
ICT Skills: Received basic training initially at the Lambeth Refugee Resource and Development
Centre (LARRDEC) in Brixton, in the London Borough of Lambeth. Continuously updating ICT
Skills during Further Education, Training and Work Experiences, for example with the Brixton
Community Law Centre (BCLC), Jubilee 2000, on the APEL Course in the University of North
London (UNL)/London Metropolitan University (LMU), with Grassroots Rising and also with the
Global Justice Institute of the Global Justice Forum (GJI-GJF).
Hobbies: Nature Enjoyment, Reading, Meditation, Current Affairs, Consciencist Intergenerational
Dialogue, Music/Edutainment, Video/Film and Media Critical Reviews.