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ACKHI is a predominately African-Diasporic¹ (Black) led community organization, set up to promote the cultural heritage of peoples of African and African Diasporic¹ heritage and decent. The organization was set up in 2003 in response to what was perceived as the piecemeal and fragmented approach to delivering cultural programmes aimed at redressing the imbalance in the negative portrayal of the cultural heritage of Africa and the African Diaspora.

The group was set up with five specific objectives:

• to promote, maintain, improve and advance education for the benefit of the public in African and African Diasporic cultural heritage particularly by;
• the production of educational materials and:
• the encouragement of the arts;
• to promote African and African Diasporic cultural heritage through various arts media.
• to promote an Afri-centric perspective of history, current affairs, knowledge and systems
• to facilitate organizational capacity building through the organization and or delivery of appropriate training in organizational and management skills
• to establish and arts development centre in Oxfordshire, to provide training opportunities, particularly for young African Diasporic people to develop their artistic skills
• to promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of the inhabitants of the county of Oxfordshire and the environs thereof and in particular for the people of African and African-Caribbean decent and heritage.

The 'Out of Africa' programme.

2007 marks the 200th Anniversary of the British Parliamentary Abolition of Slave Trade and ACKHI have developed a programme in collaboration with a number of organizations that will commemorate and celebrate this event for Oxfordshire, and as part of a national programme of similar events.

The 'Out of Africa' programme will be the first large scale programme ACKHI has undertaken, and arises from a determination on the part of the organisation to take forward the outcomes of Community Consultation undertaken in 2006.

'Remembering Slavery'- Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the British Parliamentary Act of 1807 Abolishing the (Transatlantic) Slave Trade.

The programme will be launched on Fri 2nd March at Pegasus Theatre, with its major event on Sunday March 25, 2007 to marks the 200th anniversary of the Act. In Oxford, the day will be marked by a series of events co-ordinated by African & African-Caribbean Kultural Heritage Initiative (ACKHI), to commemorate the millions of Africans transported from their countries of birth into enslavement, and the descendants of those enslaved African peoples who have survived to become contributors to Britain's multiracial society.

The programme of event offers the unique opportunity to commemorate the millions of lives lost on the continent of Africa, in the Middle Passage and in the Americas, and in Europe, where millions of Africans spent their lives in servitude. The event will commemorate the ancestors who through their tenacity survived and are represented here today in what has now become multiracial Britain, a legacy of enslavement and colonialism.