WHO ARE WE?

Toyin Agbetu

Toyin Agbetu is a community-educator at Ligali, a UK based, Pan African, human-rights based organisation that has been at the forefront of the work challenging Afriphobia in society for over twenty years. As an activist collective and ICOM member, Ligali adopts a scholar-activist approach to addressing the misrepresentation of African people, culture and history in the media and public spaces. Toyin is also a founding member of the grassroots Grenfell MediaWatch team - a citizen-journalist collective, a board member of Solace SG, a Hackney based sickle cell and thalassemia peer support group and a member of the NHS City and Hackney Clinical Commissioning Group for Sickle Cell.

As an independent filmmaker and neo-museologist he is dedicated to social justice, critical pedagogy and decoloniality. He was awarded his Masters and PhD doctorate in social anthropology at University College London (UCL). His research expertise covers education and community development, gentrification, museology, protest culture, and governmental/institutional forms of activism.