Meet the Team

  • Kofi Mawuli Klu

    Kofi is an indigenous Gbetowo Community-rooted independent scholar-activist jurisconsult. He specialises in the pan-Afrikan indigeneity promotion of law-related global citizenship education, and in the decolonisation furtherance of planet repairs internationalism, as conducive to winning global justice for all. Kofi is currently living and working in a diversity of organisations from London, United Kingdom.

  • Boucka Koffi

    Boucka is the Chair of the Voice of the Voiceless Immigration Detainees in Yorkshire (VVIDY). Originally from Côte d’Ivoire, he is a deeply committed Pan-Afrikanist dedicated to the decolonisation of education and the advancement of indigenous scholar-activism. Boucka works closely with community educators - particularly within his own Akan communities in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, as well as across the diaspora - to build grassroots educational alternatives.

  • Asha Herten-Crabb

    Asha is Assistant Professor of International Organisations at the University of Warwick. Her research and teaching explore how the enduring legacies of Western European imperialism continue to shape global governance, with particular attention to international trade and unequal relations between the Global North and South. She holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

  • Mark Wilson

    Mark is a recent graduate from the London School of Economics where he studied the MSc in Human Rights and Politics. Originally from Australia, his studies focused on the international connections of First Nations land rights campaigns, and the contemporary movement for truth-telling over Australia’s colonial legacy. He joined PEFBE to help develop connections and solidarity between community-led truth telling and colonial reparations movements around the world.

Steering Collective

The Steering Collective supports the development, coherence, and integrity of the Global Peoples’ Educational Forum on the British Empire. It helps to guide the Forum’s overall direction, coordinate its shared work, and ensure that its activities remain grounded in the political and ethical commitments of the project.

The Steering Collective works collaboratively to:

Hold the political vision

Support the development of the Forum’s aims and political direction. Ensure that its work remains centred on the continuing effects of empire, the knowledge and experiences of affected communities, and the pursuit of reparatory justice.

Guide the Forum’s development

Shape the Forum’s structure, priorities, and programme of work as it develops. Review emerging proposals and help ensure that different activities contribute to a coherent wider process.

Support consultation and participation

Help design and oversee consultation processes through which communities, movements, and organisations can shape the Forum. Support forms of participation that are accessible, meaningful, and responsive to the needs of those involved.

Build and maintain shared infrastructure

Coordinate the development of shared resources, including the website, educational materials, consultation tools, communications, visual identity, and systems for recording and organising contributions. Ensure that these resources reflect the Forum’s values and can be used across its different activities.

Convene spaces for learning and coordination

Organise meetings, workshops, and other spaces in which participants can exchange knowledge, identify shared concerns, reflect on tensions, and develop areas of collective work.

Connect movements and organisations

Support relationships between communities, movements, researchers, educators, and organisations working on empire and reparatory justice. Help identify opportunities for exchange, collaboration, and solidarity across different contexts.

Support public education and political action

Guide the development of educational resources, public events, campaigns, and interventions that make knowledge about empire more widely accessible and support demands for reparatory justice. This may include contributing to public and political debates, including around Commonwealth and international processes.

Uphold accountability and values

Ensure that the Forum’s work reflects its commitments to care, consent, reciprocity, accessibility, and respect for situated knowledge. Provide a point of reference when ethical concerns, disagreements, or questions of accountability arise.

Coordinate resources

Support fundraising and the fair, transparent use of shared resources. Where appropriate, develop funding applications, build relationships with aligned funders, and ensure that decisions about resources reflect the Forum’s priorities.

Protect the integrity of the Forum

Respond to attempts to co-opt, misrepresent, or misuse the Forum’s name, work, or political framing. Help ensure that external partnerships and public interventions remain consistent with the Forum’s purpose and values.

The Steering Collective serves the wider process. It does not speak on behalf of all affected communities or determine their priorities. Its role is to facilitate participation, support shared work, and help build a Forum that can develop through the knowledge, relationships, and political action of those involved.