ROV’s work seeks to endorse the voices of African communities and their scholar-activists working on Historical and Contemporary Enslavement in such a way as to build alternative educational processes and structures of conscientisation through Lifelong Learning. The ROV-PULL is based on this paradigm and follows in the footsteps of its pathbreakers such as W.E.B Du Bois, Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, Paolo Freire, Bell Hooks and Mincere Githae Mugo amongst many others.

As part of ROV-PULL, we organise annual commemorative and educational events and activities around the 23 August - UNESCO’s declared International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. This marks the day in 1791, where on a plantation in today’s Haiti, a small uprising gave birth to what was to become perhaps the most influential mass movement of enslaved African peoples throughout the history of Chattel Enslavement. It was an uprising which would lead to the Haitian Revolution, which, through the self-empowerment, resistance and liberation struggle of African people, galvanised the emancipation of the Peoples of the Caribbean and Americas from chattel enslavement and led to the assertion of Self-Determination and all other Human and People’s Rights for All.