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: Mawusafo@yahoo.com

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.