Toyin Agbetu

'As an organisation we fundamentally strive for equality (self determination) but, our core focus is on working as an African human rights movement that acts as one of the many spiritual and cultural gatekeepers for our community in the UK.'

Toyin Agbetu is the founder of Ligali, an African British* organisation set up to campaign for human rights and cultural, socio-economic and political justice on behalf of the African community. In particular, Ligali challenges the misrepresentation of African people and culture in the British media and advocates self determination and equality within the African British community. As Head of Social and Education Policy for the organisation, Toyin is responsible for a number of initiatives including the Stuff You Should Know initiative aimed at informing young people of their rights, the No N Word campaign focusing on stemming the rampant use and negative reclamation of the offensive ‘n word’ in media and social institutions and supporting the establishment of a national African Remembrance Day.

Toyin is also the director of the film Maafa: Truth 2007 and writes a weekly column for the New Nation newspaper. He has authored several reports including Jesus Says Sorry: The Anatomy of a Political Apology for Slavery, Declaration of Protest to the 2007 Commemoration of the Bicentenary of the British Parliamentary Abolition, The Making of an Impoverished History: From G8 to Live8 and Addressing Maafa denial and slavery apologists.