Esther Stanford-Xosei is a Reparations Specialist, Director, Legal Advisor, International Advocate, Political Advisor, Media Spokesperson, and Scholar-Activist based in Britain.
She is passionate about the struggle for the total liberation and unification of African people and an indispensable and self-empowering reparatory justice.
She was born in South London and brought into this world by parents who were born in the Caribbean (Barbados and Guyana), yet who retained their genetic and cultural memory of Africa.
Her activism has sought to re-member the historic, geopolitical and cultural ties between Diaspora communities and our ancestral Motherland, Africa.
By vocation she is a juri-consult, or legal specialist in applied jurisprudence, the science, philosophy and study of law through its actual practice. As a juri-consult, her unique professional niche is serving as a Pan-African internationalist ‘guerrilla lawyer’; a grassroots scholar-activist law practitioner.
Esther is also in the process of completing my PhD research on the UK contingent of the International Social Movement for Afrikan Reparations.
The Anti-Apartheid Movement had a strong influence on her early political development.
She recalls,”In 1987, at age 13, I entered a competition for young Black writers, and my winning entry was a piece of creative writing under the theme ‘Not only equality but justice’, about the abolition of apartheid featuring the role of an imagined woman protagonist who was a freedom-fighting ‘mother of the nation’ named Mauba Sheshea.”
The impact of the Anti-Apartheid Movement had a strong influence on her emerging race and national consciousness as an African woman in the Diaspora as well as recognition of the connections between global racism and imperialism.
“Another significant encounter was my activism as an aspiring lawyer as part of a UK Organisation of ‘Black Lawyers’, to effect and secure holistic reparatory justice; organising with fellow Pan-Africanists who were in exile in the UK and had been involved in African liberation struggles in their home countries in Africa.
Recognising the fact that there was a political vacuum in championing the cause of Pan-Afrikan Reparations, these encounters led to my involvement in 2000, with fellow-Ghanaian Pan-Afrikanists Kofi Mawuli Klu and Kwame Adofo Sampong, in co-founding the Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe.”
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