Dr Toyin Agbetu is a community-educator at Ligali, a UK based, Pan African, human-rights focused organisation. As a radical grassroots collective, Ligali adopts a scholar-activist approach to challenging Afriphobia and the misrepresentation of African people, culture and history in the media, public spaces and public services.
From 2007, Agbetu wrote a weekly column called “Nyansapo” for the New Nation newspaper. In 2009 he started a community radio programme called the Pan African Drum. He is the author of Ukweli – A Political and Spiritual Basis for Pan Africanism (2010), Revoetry – Poems from an African British Perspective (2010) and The Manual: The Rules for Men (2002).
Agbetu is also an independent filmmaker. In 2014 he made the film Beauty Is…. which discusses beauty from an African perspective. He is a neo-museologist dedicated to reparatory and social justice, critical pedagogy, decoloniality and actively reframing Britain’s cultural institutions as powerful engines of political and social transformation. He studied social and cultural anthropology at University College London (UCL) and his research interests include education and community development, counter publics and urban social movements, cultures of protest, gentrification and governmental/institutional forms of activism.
Refs: Toyin Agbetu biography – Wikipedia; ligali.org
