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The Ligali Party was initially set up in September 2003 by Emma Pierre-Joseph, Oleander William and Funmi Womack of the Ligali Organisation. It's purpose is to function as a self funded, self determining political institution for the Pan African community across Britain. Toyin Agbetu was elected spokesperson for the body with a remit to build a unifying political voice for the Pan African community in Britain. By bringing together African people of Continental and Caribbean heritage, traditional, Christian and Islamic faith, old and young, women and men, the aim of the Ligali party is to utilise our collective strengths to better tackle our weaknesses and socio-political obstacles in order to achieve political, economic and spiritual liberation and justice for our families in the UK and back home. We welcome all those who support our aims and objectives. |
1. To work in partnership with individuals and organisations for a fair and just society which gives Africans in Britain an equal chance to work, learn and live free from negative discrimination and covert and overt prejudice based on gender, race, culture and/or class. As such, we seek to;
- Increase employment opportunities for African people
- Increase access to higher education for African people
- Increase access to quality health care for African people
- Reduce civil rights violations by police and other associated central and local government institution on African people.
2. To reduce the misrepresentation of African people in the British media;
- Monitoring, investigating and publicly challenging all media institutions that publish, broadcast, perform, or distribute content harmful and offensive to the African community.
- Encouraging media institutions to include sufficient quantity of quality monocultural African British programming into their schedules.
- Establishing independent monocultural African British national TV and radio channels.
- Establishing media resources of diverse educational, historical, social, artistic and current African British interests presented and produced by African people
3. To reduce social exclusion and achieve institutional acknowledgment of African Britons as stakeholders in Britain by;
- Seeking central and local government usage of 'African British' as an official legal identity for a British national with African ancestry.
- Seeking central and local government renaming of 'black' History Month to African History Month.
- Annually marking every August as African Remembrance Month and NOT slavery month.
4. To raise the academic achievements of African British pupils by;
- Seeking Inclusion of Africentric mentoring programmes within all schools.
- Seeking enrichment of the national curriculum by the inclusion of African and African diasporic history.
- Reducing pupil exclusions and establishing the procedure to only be used as LAST resort
- Establishing a national African British student’s forum.
- Establishing a national African British teacher’s forum.
- Advocating the training and education of all teachers in cultural diversity.
- Supporting other organisations that promote high academic and creative achievement of young African Britons.
5. To reduce and tackle the root causes of youth violence and crime within the African British community by;
- Discourage the use of redundant initiatives and instead implement workable and practical solutions to crime
- Seeking a sufficient quantity and quality of community youth provisions with a sustainable development plan. Examples include supplementary schools/services, after school programs and youth clubs offering a safe environment for culturally rich programmes.
- Supporting other organisations that deal effectively with crime affecting/involving the African British community.
6. To act as an independent and representative
body, campaigning, protesting and debating issues relevant to the
African British community’s social, economic and political
concern’s.
7. To promote better relations with different ethnic
groups within the UK and the African British community.
8. To support initiatives that allow the African British voice to be heard undiluted in multiple formats. We aim to do this by;
- Encouraging and supporting African Britons of all ages to use art (spoken word / film / music / photography) as a means of political, cultural and spiritual expression.
- Creating and maintaining our own media.
9. To encourage productive Pan African relations
by forging strategic relationships with Africans in the Diaspora
and in Africa by assisting organisations such as those involved
in the African Reparation movement and supplying aid to directly
to Africa.
10. To increase social awareness and promote enhanced
facilities and/ or treatment for, but not exclusively, the following
health issues; mental health, quality of care for the elderly, disabilities,
Sickle cell, and other health concerns specific to the African British
community.
11. To reduce African British disengagement with the political processes and reduce voting apathy by;
- Monitoring and holding central & local government accountable for the delivery of solutions addressing African British concerns made in Manifesto pledges and public statements.
- Monitoring and holding African British politicians accountable for the delivery of all public statements made regarding delivery of local services for the African British community.
- Monitoring and reporting on the frequency African British politicians & high profile community representatives highlight, address and implement solutions to community concerns in the political arena.
