Multi-faceted institutions of Afrikan Heritage Community Repair in Bristol

Zenzele Village is an initiative that seeks to build functional multi-faceted institutions of Afrikan
Heritage Community Repair in Bristol. This intergenerational land and community self-repair initiative brings together the three pillars of the Bristol Pempamsie Reparations Plan/Mpango (B-PREP): Pan-Afrikan Holistic Health, Pan-Afrikan Education for Liberation and Cooperative Economics for a political (Nation Building) Economy. It will include land for agricultural and other purposes and as well as working in partnership and adding value to existing community assets that serve Afrikan Heritage Communities.

‘Zenzele’ In Zulu & Xhosa means ‘Do it Yourself’, ‘Be Your Own Helper’, ‘Self-Reliance’.
This encompasses the ethos of what we are trying to do and the training, education and advocacy work that will inform its development. To resource ZV we seek the return of Afrikan Heritage resources from those who wish to atone for their unjust enrichment due to their historical ties to the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Afrikans and the contemporary negative impact on the descendants of these Ancestors.

Zenzele Village stands to become the most ambitious reparatory initiatives for Afrikan Heritage Communities in Bristol and beyond. It will be a developmental land and legacy intergenerational initiative focused on our own self repair by our owns people's power! No mean feat but we are unapologetic about our quest for reparatory justice and whilst some may consider this to be an ambition too far we say:  To those who say it cannot be done, stand aside for those of us who are committed to our generations to come to benefit from this and be part of its continued development!

Expertise, stamina, patience, financial and other resources will be needed to get Zenzele Village off of paper and into a tangible reality and we need your support to do so. 

We will be holding a series of Reparation RAPs (Reasoning and Planning Sessions) in the form of people's assemblies in order to seek your mandate and participation as we blaze the trail for the formation of Zenzele Village as an initiative founded on sound Afrikan indigenous ethics and knowledge systems. It will be the first endeavour to achieve non territorial autonomy https://ntautonomy.univie.ac.at/en/research/what-is-non-territorial-autonomy/