Supporting Ligali

There are many ways in which you can support Ligali.

Supporters

1. Donate - We are an independent not for profit organisation and therefore can only thrive with the economic, political and spiritual support of our community. To maintain our independence and integrity we need your Donations.

2. Complain - Inform Ligali if you have seen, heard or read an anti-African TV /radio programme, article or advert. Also, register your concerns direct with the regulators as well as our media monitoring unit.

3. Highlight institutions and individuals guilty of anti-African practices.

4. Encourage young people to become involved with politics and social issues through producing art and cultural media.

5. Debate - Organise screenings of our films and hold debates engaging with the issues that maintain inequality for African people through community meetings, internet forums, radio phone-in shows and media letter pages.

6. Create - Become a Griot and create cultural media that reflects our history, politics, spirtuality, traditions and culture.

7. Archive - Write articles, stories and plays on our current affairs. Take photos of key events, record interviews.

8. Legacy - Record the memories of our elders, the opinions of our children and preserve our Legacy for future generations.

9. Promote - Please help promote our films and books, you can organise screenings at community events or on TV stations. You can ask newspapers and magazines to review them, even go to your local library and ask them to purchase a copy.

10. Organisation - Please join a progressive organisation that is working for the liberation of African people and avoid cults.

Volunteers

All Ligali supporters and representatives work on a voluntary basis. As such, there is no pay involved, unless of course, you consider the non-financial benefits and rewards. We welcome all and anyone who may want to support the organisation. The only requirements are that you are dedicated and have the best interests of the African community at heart. Please phone or email us for more details.

Media Watch
If you have watched a programme/film about Africa or just listened to a radio show / topical debate, please write a review for our media watch section stating the date, time, presenter, topic, etc and your opinion. Every time there is a debate on the radio, we should have a review within 48 hours giving details of who said what and when this is also so we can hold anti-African offenders to account.


Administration
We need at least two commited Africans to work as personal assistants. Internet access is a must, someone dedicated to our community's empowerment, reliable and meticulous, able to travel at least once a week for a face to face meeting, but confident enough to work unassisted for at least two days a week. This can be a very intense and stressful role, it is immensely rewarding but not suited to those with commitment issues.

Investigative Writers (Journalists)
Our news section is too heavy with bad news, we therefore need some self motivated writers who can seek out positive stories and organisations in our community and write short articles including interviews for publication on our website.

Event Reporter
We need a couple of people who can attend our various community events with a digital camera and mp3 recorder and write a report/article of what occurs for those of us unable to attend.

International Correspondent
If you still have good links with our family back home then we need writers who could give our community a monthly international update of what's happening on the ground outside the UK. Especially information on grass roots organisation that could do with our support. We are a Pan African organisation so we would like stories about what is happening in any country where African people reside. From Canada to the Seychelles, whether it occurs in the Caribbean or on the Continent we want to know.

National Correspondents
Do you buy a weekly gazette in your area? Please send us some of the stories affecting our community that have not made national news. From Wales to Manchester it is important that we make links with all of the Africans in Britain not just those resident in London.

Media Activist
This role cannot be stressed enough, we need people to call into our own media institutions and leave the LBC and BBC shows topical shows alone. Every time a phone call or interaction is made solely to our media rivals it is a nail in the coffin for our own community media.

Newsletter Manager
Our newsletter is very widely read but its supposed to be a monthly publication, we need someone who is willing to take responsibility for putting it together to a strict deadline and ensuring that all the contributors submit their elements on time.

Passings Editor
This is a difficult and depressing job but we would like an article for every future youth murder, racist killing or passing of a revered elder in our community remembered on our public website. Too many of our people have violently passed recently and we have not recorded it appropriately. It is our responsibility to cover this news with dignity and respect, instead of just relaying on the output of a callous, insensitive media.

Griot Archive
We urgently need someone to go around and interview the elders in our community archiving their experience and wisdom.

Community Outreach Officer
Do you have the skills to engage with Africans in our community who still believe they are 'black' with all the negativity that brings? Too many of us are isolated and unaware of the existence of others with the required skills and experience to empower ourselves. From lone parents to disaffected young people, we need a small team of people who can go to those in need of help and offer support.

Event Organisers
We try to hold a couple of main events a year and several social cultural gatherings to break bread and reason. We want to extend into healing sessions which will include development circles for our young people and also men and women both separate and together. From parental support, self employment to abuse and mental health, the format will always be simple, the benefits immense. If you can help lead with this by finding venues, co-ordinating with marketing then please let us know.