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Our Mission

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The Maangamizi Educational Trust serves as the educational arm of the Stop the Maangamizi Campaign, dedicated to building narrative and cultural power to advance holistic reparative justice through Planet Repairs for the continuum of the Maangamizi.

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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.

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Our Educational Rationale

Education for action serves as a powerful tool in stopping and counteracting the Maangamizi—which continues in the present day. Our action-learning approaches provide methods and strategies for directly confronting its current manifestations, addressing its ongoing impacts, and building the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes necessary for active resistance and transformation of these harmful systems. We believe that true education must lead to transformative action, and that meaningful action must be informed by critical education.

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Core Work & Objectives

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1. Public Education & Maangamizi Awareness

We promote racial justice and harmony through action-learning that commemorates and raises awareness of the Maangamizi, highlighting both its historical causes and contemporary manifestations. Crucially, we document, amplify, and support implementation of community-led initiatives being taken to stop and redress it, facilitating both learning about and engaging in resistance and repair strategies across the Afrikan diaspora.

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2. Research on Genocide, Ethnocide, Ecocide & Resistance

We conduct and support research documenting the Maangamizi's causes and contemporary consequences of genocide, ethnocide, crimes against humanity and ecocide, as well as measures and initiatives to counteract and redress it. Our work equally emphasises documenting historical and ongoing resistance movements and community-led strategies for survival and liberation.

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3. Community Self-Repairs & Planet Repairs Frameworks

We advance education about Community Self-Repairs endeavors and Planet Repairs (the nexus of cognitive, reparatory and environmental justice), nationally and internationally. This includes supporting the development of the Sankofakuumba Pan-Afrikan Community Glocal Educational Complex and other institutions that implement these frameworks.

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4. Human, Peoples & Mother Earth Rights Advocacy

We provide specialized information and advocacy addressing Afriphobia while promoting rights-based approaches to reparative, global, and transitional justice through truth-seeking, truth-telling, mediation, and sustainable just peace-building.

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5. Transformative Action Against Ongoing Harms

We support and stand in solidarity with communities as they identify harmful patterns and mobilize their inherent strengths to actively intervene, disrupt, and transform systems of oppression. Our approach recognizes and amplifies glocal grassroots agency, dignity restoration, and ground-up leadership in policy-making to address root causes of the Maangamizi and challenge unequal power structures.

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6. Decolonial & Pluriversal Education

We advance active, engaged, critical citizenship education through action-learning methodologies that challenge Eurocentric knowledge frameworks while recognising our inseparability from Mother Earth and the Environment. Our approach integrates theory and practice, ensuring education directly supports communities in transformative action to break intergenerational cycles of dispossession and coloniality.

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Parliamentary Engagement

The MET shares the running of the secretariat for the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Afrikan Reparations (APPGAR), chaired by Bell Ribeiro-Addy, MP. This strategic engagement connects grassroots reparations advocacy with parliamentary processes, enabling community concerns and demands to be directly represented in policy discussions and legislative development. Through this work, we help build political will for reparatory justice while ensuring the voices of affected communities remain at the center of political discourse on reparations.

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Join Our Work

Connect with us to help build educational pathways toward stopping the Maangamizi, securing repair, and creating renewed possibility for Afrikan peoples, the Global Majority, and Mother Earth.