The Maangamizi Educational Trust (MET)

 

Understanding the Maangamizi

Maangamizi is a Kiswahili term describing the intentional destruction and dispossession of Afrikan peoplehood, nationhood, and relationships to Ancestral Lands through the continuum of chattel enslavement, colonialism, and neocolonialism—a process that continues today.

 

As Akala powerfully articulates:

 

"Maangamizi meaning Arikan Hellacaust, we paid a hell of a cost, don't really know what was lost, and the process ain't ever stopped."

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Our Purpose

The Maangamizi Educational Trust (MET), serving as the educational arm of the Stop the Maangamizi Campaign, supports movement-building through educational services that transform understanding of both historical and contemporary manifestations of harm, challenge dominant narratives that normalise and perpetuate the Maangamizi, develop critical social consciousness, and build capacity for action to advance holistic reparative justice as Planet Repairs.

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Our Vision of Planet Repairs

Planet Repairs transcends conventional reparations frameworks by recognising that the harm inflicted on Afrikan Heritage and other Majority World peoples, their cultures, knowledge systems, and ancestral lands is inextricably linked with damage to ecological systems and the broader web of life. This visionary approach:

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• Safeguards the rights of past, present, and future generations

• Centers Pluriversality—embracing multiple ways of knowing and being

• Integrates Cognitive, Reparatory and Environmental justice

• Repairs our relationship with Mother Earth, the Environment, and the Pluriverse

• Honours Indigenous Knowledges that understand humanity's inseparability from nature

• Challenges western-centric Enlightenment ideals that enabled exploitation for capital accumulation.

 

Our Approach

Through narrative change and cultural organising, we cultivate the public imagination necessary to counteract the Maangamizi's pervasive impacts. Our educational work nurtures:

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• Collective Memory that honours ancestral wisdom and resistance traditions

• Critical Consciousness that recognises ongoing manifestations of harm

• Creative Vision that imagines and manifests alternative futures

• Collaborative Action that builds solidarity across movements.

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Transformative Reparations Framework

Our holistic reparations model rejects narrow, individualised approaches and instead embraces:

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• Collective Restoration of sovereignty and self-determination for colonised and oppressed Peoples

• Structural Redistribution of wealth, resources, power, and redress for socio-economic harms

• Glocal Grassroots Agency that centers dignity restoration alongside material resources

• Ground-up Leadership in policy and decision-making processes

• Root Cause Transformation addressing both historical origins and contemporary manifestations

• Power System Reconfiguration challenging intersecting structures of domination and exclusion.
   

Through this transformative approach, we contribute to supporting communities in their self-liberation from intergenerational cycles of dispossession, coloniality, impoverishment, discrimination, and exclusion—standing in solidarity as communities create their own pathways toward justice, healing, and renewed possibility.

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Discover our core work and projects to learn how we're putting these principles into action.

 

 

 

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