Consultation Services
We offer a specialised range of consultancy from our experts addressing Archives, Restitution/Reparations and Cultural Production within the framework of the African Heritage experience in Britain.
Our consultation services include:
Decolonisation
Reparative Models of work
Frameworks for Inclusion and Legacy for underserved communities
Archive management and record keeping for indigenous groups
African Diasporic Literacy
Restitution of Artefacts
Theatre with Archives
African-Caribbean migrated archives and ritual practices
Who We Are
Dr. Etienne Joseph
A leading Archive specialist, Digital Producer and Educator. He is one of the handful of Archivists of African heritage operating in the UK.
Dr. Etienne holds a PhD in African Studies and Archive and Masters 1st class Distinction in Record Management.
His work strives to understand the purpose and function of heritage within African/Diasporic cultural contexts. Specifically, Dr. Etienne's practical and theoretical interventions engage with the idea of the 'living archive' and the active role of history in African/Diasporic (re)evolution. His work evidences his interest in the functional mapping of African/Diasporic traditions onto contemporary practices of heritage preservation and sharing.
Connie Bell
Connie Bell is a leading Memory Worker and Cultural Producer, specialising in the field of performing migrated archives.
Ms Bell holds a Masters in Applied Theatre and Community Development and a M.A. in Narrative Therapy & BA in Education. She has over 15 years of working globally in Cultural Therapy and Production.
Her work as a theatre practitioner and therapist explores themes of memory, culture and identity across a range of artistic media. As well as her Independent practice, she has worked with several institutions of note including the National Theatre, Sloane Lab, the National Archives, University College London, Leeds University, Reading University and the Caribbean Institute of Mental Health and Substance Abuse.
Global Team
We work with experts and scholars which form our global diasporic team under our University of Repair Project.
Our members are all experts and professionals in their fields with decades of experience in Community Resilience Training & Community Archiving and Repository Specialist, and Cultural Production within the Black British Landscape.
Esther Xosei
Esther Xosei is a jurisconsult (legal specialist in jurisprudence), reparationist, (reparations activist), dynamic community advocate and historian. She is a modern day abolitionist and freedom fighter, passionate about law, justice and education and using those as tools in resisting forms or oppression and injustice. Carrying on the legacy of Afrikan freedom movements, she is preoccupied with Afrikan Self-Determination from a contemporary Black Nationalist perspective.
Professor Gus John
Professor Gus John is a scholar-activist and social analyst specialising in Education policy. He holds a Doctorate in Education (EdD) and is an associate professor and honorary fellow of the UCL Institute of Education. He has adviser to governments in Britain, the Caribbean and Africa.
Since the 1960s, he has been a leader in the UK in the fields of children's rights and the role of schooling and education in promoting social justice; school improvement; management and international development.
Professor Patricia Rodney
Professor Patricia Rodney is the founder and CEO of the Walter Rodney Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. She holds a PhD degree in Sociology minor in Adult Education, and specialises in public health and education.
Dr. Stanley Griffin
Dr. Stanley Griffin is an archivist, cultural analyst, and historian. He holds a PhD in Cultural Studies (with High Commendation) from the Cave Hill Barbados Campus of The University of the West Indies, and an MSc in Archives and Records Management (Int’l) from the University of Dundee, Scotland. He is currently, a professor of Humanities and Education at the University of the West Indies.
His research interests include multiculturalism in Antigua and the Eastern Caribbean, the cultural dynamics of intra-Caribbean migrations, archives in the constructs of Caribbean culture, and community archives in the Caribbean.