Antumi Toasijé

Antumi Pallas (born 13 November 1969), also known as Antumi Toasijé, is a Spanish-Colombian historian and advocate for Pan-Africanism of African descent (Afro-Spaniard). A Global History lecturer at the University of New York in Madrid[1] as well as professor in other Universities in Spain,[2] he is a specialist in African History and culture, racism, and Pan-African political philosophy. He is also the President of the Council for the Elimination of Racial or Ethnic Discrimination (CEDRE), a consultative body of the Spanish Ministry of Equality.[3]

Antumi Toasijé
Born
Antumi Pallas

(1969-11-13) 13 November 1969
Bogotá, Colombia
NationalitySpanish
OccupationHistorian

Biography

Antumi Toasijé was born on 13 November 1969 in Bogotá to Laura Victoria Valencia Rentería, an Afro-Colombian woman from Quibdó whose African roots are in the Temne people from Sierra Leone,[4] and an exiled Spanish father. He is closely affiliated with Equatorial Guinea, but lives and works primarily in Spain where he moved at the age of two. Toasijé identifies spiritually as a Buddhist.[5]

Antumi Toasijé earned his PhD from the University of Alcala in Spain in History, culture and thought, with a Thesis on the black presence in Spain from the Iron Age to present times [6] Previously he studied at the University of the Balearic Islands and obtained the title of Licentiate in history before starting his doctorate degree from the Autonomous University of Madrid. Currently he is the Director of the Center for Pan-African Studies,[7] President of the Pan-African Center, has been Director of the Journal of Migrations of the Federation of Balearic Immigrant Associations, and has been a member of the Group of African Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

Toasijé lived his early years in Ibiza in the Balearic Islands where he took up painting and poetry. He was a member of the poetic group Desfauste and participated actively in the cultural life of the island. In 2003, together with a group of African intellectuals, he founded the Association of African and Pan-African Studies, whose journal Nsibidi was the first Spanish-language journal of African social studies. In 2005 he directed the scientific committee of the 2nd Pan-African Congress in Spain under the auspices of the National University of Distance Education. Later he became involved with the Spaniard slavery reparations movement,[8] culminating on 17 February 2009 with the passage of a non-binding motion on the matter by the Congress of Deputies. Toasijé is a recognized figure of afrocentricity and Pan Africanism in the Spanish Speaking world. Currently, he is part of the civil society working team of facilitators of the African Union 6th Region in charge of Spain and the Spanish Speaking Countries. Also Antumi Toasijé is the prime impetus behind the New Universal Calendar (NUCAL)[9] movement.

In October 2020 Antumi Toasije is appointed by the Spanish Ministry of Equality Irene Montero as President of the Council for the Elimination of Racial or Ethnic Discrimination (CEDRE), a consultative body of the Spanish Ministry of Equality.[10]

Toasijé has been lecturing and conferencing in various Spanish Universities and institutions, he is the coauthor of various books about immigration and African themes, and has written extensively both in the academic and the popular press. He works closely with other Spanish-speaking Pan-Africanists such as Mbuyi Kabunda Badi and Justo Bolekia Boleká.

Books
  • Si me preguntáis por el Panafricanismo y la Afrocentricidad (2013)
  • La noche inabarcable Novel (2019)
  • Africanidad (2020)

Academic papers
  • Mujer africano norteamericana decimonónica: imagen, discurso y actitudes liberadoras. (2006)
  • The Africanity of Spain Identity and Problematization. (2007)
  • La esclavitud en el XVI en territorios hispánicos. (2008 Published in 2010)
  • Autoafirmación y naturalidad en las literaturas africanas clásicas de resistencia de la mano de Edward Said. (2008)
  • Desarrollismos Despistes y Auto-Realización Africana. En torno a Amartya Sen y M. Molineux. (2010)
  • La memoria y el reconocimiento de la comunidad africana y africano-descendiente negra en España: El papel de la vanguardia panafricanista. (2010)
  • El cine de África negra: la mirada moral.(2010)

See also

References
  1. "NYU Madrid Faculty". NYU Madrid. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  2. "Universidad Internacional de la Rioja UNIR" (in Spanish). UNIR. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  3. "Antumi Toasijé nombrado nuevo presidente del Consejo para la Eliminación de la Discriminación Racial o Étnica". La Moncloa. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  4. The Most Influential Contemporary African Diaspora Leaders. 30 April 2016. ISBN 9781524605582. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  5. "Jeffrey Abé entrevista a Antumi Toasijé" (in Spanish). Africanidad. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  6. "Antumi Toasijé explica la presencia de población africana negra en Balears". diariodeibiza.es (in Spanish). 18 June 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  7. "Disertan en Casa África sobre los ataques a la soberanía de África". ABC.es (in Spanish). 24 November 2011. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  8. Kituo Cha Wanafrika (5 September 2007). "Reclaman petición española de perdón por siglos de esclavitud". Webislam.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  9. New Universal Calendar Site | http://www.nucal.blogspot.com.es
  10. "Antumi Toasijé nombrado nuevo presidente del Consejo para la Eliminación de la Discriminación Racial o Étnica". La Moncloa. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
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