Antumi Toasije speaks on the rights of African migrants in Spain to the President of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, political authorities, and representatives of the Afro community.
Antumi Toasijé is a historian, writer, and visual artist. He is a professor of Global History at New York University in Madrid and professor of non-Eurocentric Global History at IE University. He has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Morgan State University (2024–2025). From 2020 to 2024 he has been the president of the Council for the Elimination of Racial or Ethnic Discrimination (CEDRE), the main official body dedicated to the fight against racism in Spain, which is linked to the Spanish Ministry of Equality.
Antumi Toasijé has spoken at the United Nations on several occasions, both in Geneva and New York, defending the rights of African migrants and advocating the Pan-Africanist perspective.
PhD in History, Culture and Thought from the University of Alcalá (2019), with a thesis on the African presence in the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands from the Iron Age to the present day, with PhD courses in International Relations and African Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid (2004) and a Degree in General History from the University of the Balearic Islands (2003).
In 2003, he founded at the University of the Balearic Islands the Association of African Studies and Pan-Africanism, responsible for the first online Africa-centered journal in Spanish: Nsibidi, and for the first official course on Africa at that University. Antumi has also been director of the Journal of the Federation of Immigrant Associations in the Balearic Islands (FAIB), representative of the Sixth Region of the African Union, and of the Pan-African League UMOJA in Spain. In 2004, he founded in Madrid the Pan-African Center Association and the Center for Pan-African Studies, which carries out numerous initiatives of Afro intellectual empowerment, such as the 2016 African Book Fair and the blog Africanidad. In 2004, he was president of the Intellectual Committee of the Second Pan-African Congress in Spain, held at the National Distance Education University (UNED). From that Congress emerged the demands of the African and Afro-descendant Community in Spain, which were included in the first non-binding resolution on the Recognition of the African and Afro-descendant Community, presented and approved in 2009 in the Spanish Parliament.
Antumi Toasijé is the author of three history books and a novel, as well as several academic and informative articles. He has also promoted a wide range of cultural and social initiatives for the defense of the rights of African and Afro-descendant communities in Europe, Africa, and Latin America. He is the director of the documentary Panafricano, where he connects the Afro-Colombian diaspora, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Ghana.
In 2003, he founded at the University of the Balearic Islands the Association of African Studies and Pan-Africanism, responsible for the first online Africa-centered journal in Spanish: Nsibidi, and for the first official course on Africa at that University. Antumi has also been director of the Journal of the Federation of Immigrant Associations in the Balearic Islands (FAIB), representative of the Sixth Region of the African Union, and of the Pan-African League UMOJA in Spain. In 2004, he founded in Madrid the Pan-African Center Association and the Center for Pan-African Studies, which carries out numerous initiatives of Afro intellectual empowerment, such as the 2016 African Book Fair and the blog Africanidad. In 2004, he was president of the Intellectual Committee of the Second Pan-African Congress in Spain, held at the National Distance Education University (UNED). From that Congress emerged the demands of the African and Afro-descendant Community in Spain, which were included in the first non-binding resolution on the Recognition of the African and Afro-descendant Community, presented and approved in 2009 in the Spanish Parliament.
Antumi Toasijé is the author of three history books and a novel, as well as several academic and informative articles. He has also promoted a wide range of cultural and social initiatives for the defense of the rights of African and Afro-descendant communities in Europe, Africa, and Latin America. He is the director of the documentary Panafricano, where he connects the Afro-Colombian diaspora, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Ghana.
Premiere of the Pan-African documentary at Morgan State University, where Antumi Toasijé taught classes on the African presence in Spain as a Fulbright Scholar in Residence during the 2024-2025 academic year.
Of African, European and Native American descent from Colombia, Antumi has been educated and has developed most of his academic career in Spain. His main research focuses are the African presence in Spain and Europe from prehistory to the present times, African resistances against the European colonial invasion, the origins of racism, anti-racist social movements, Pan-Africanism and afrocentricity.