anzingha2@aol.com Experience: Voluntary Work Contributions 1981 - 1983: Member of Fund-Raising group, Association of Black Social Workers and Allied Professionals, Brixton, London 1983 -1987: Executive Secretary Black Action Group, Balham, London 1985 - 1987: Established with 5 other women Harriet Tubman Sisters, organising political education meetings for women, we raised funds for Ethopian famine appeal, organised cultural events and myself and sister Afia acted as chief stewards for the Black People for Justice Demonstration (1986) following the police shooting in Brixton when Cherry Groce was shot in the back (which paralysed her from her waist down) and the murder of Cynthia Jarrett in Tottenham by the police who caused her death when they invaded her house claiming to be looking for her son. 1987-1988: I was Treasurer and Fund-Raising Co-ordinator to the Marcus Garvey Centenary Committee, I also attended the Marcus Garvey Centenary Conference at the University of the West indies in Jamaica. Whilst in Jamaica I contributed to organising Afrikan Liberation celebrations with Sis Beverely Hamilton and Sis Gerlin Bean. 1990s: Established Black Women’s Movement in Stockwell London; organising political education and self-empowerment meetings for women. Attendance was poor; I now see that this was probably because the Black woman has so much to do at home and in the community that she probably didn’t have time to spare for her own self development. During the 90s, I co-founded with sis Affiong of Moyo Wa Tifa womens group the Pan-Afrikan Women's Forum which provided political education for sisters. In 1996 the black women's movement was incorporated into the Universal Afrikan Peoples Development Association (UAPDA), an organisation formed by me and other committed pan-Afrikanists.  The reasons for the formation of this organisation was to seek to pull together the various organisations in the community who are all doing their own thing, so that collectively we could become big and strong. We organised cultural awareness workshops in Dulwich, London, every Sunday; also In Praise of Afrikan Women Conference in the summer of the same year.  This year also saw me initiating the first meeting of our community following receipt of the offensive publicity material from Brother Kwame which lead to the protest and boycott of the racially disloyal play “Slave Babies” put on by Blue Mountain Theatre at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London. The Black community working together lead to the closing down of the play with full-page apologies in the Black press, from its sponsors.  1997 saw the launch of the UAPDA, the publication of my first book “In Praise of Our Ancestors” and a cultural event to celebrate the centenary of Mrs. Amy Ashwood and Amy Jacques Garvey, held at Queen Mother Moore Saturday School, Clapham, London.