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Bandung Africa is an international non-governmental organization, working to promote the development of Pan African solutions to address regional and global challenges by linking Africans on the continent and in the diaspora.
The organization operates from Africa with the intention of being the mechanism by which a strategic bridge can be used to establish and facilitate the exchange of talent, academic material, research and expertise. Matching the needs of the continent with the resources available within the diaspora communities.
Our historical ties with the continent are well established and build on the legacy that dates from the Bandung Conference in Indonesia in 1955.
To promote the development of Pan African solutions to global problems linking Africans in the diaspora and on the continent.
To identify leadership skills that deliver identifiable benefits to diverse communities.
To address areas of real concern to progress the social cohesion and unity of Africa by helping to create a unified constructive approach to issues of security, human rights and the rule of law, empowering and uplifting all in society through creating real prosperity, and sustainable wealth through education and increased social mobility.
To create a culture of joint working and partnership between NGO’s and Governments, and international authorities to deliver progressive change that positively impacts the lives and destiny of all citizens.
To create a bridge between the expertise and skills in Africa and in the diaspora communities for the mutual benefit of the continent and all our people.
To increase the wealth, both economic and social, via forging closer links across the full range of economic and social activities.
Bandung Africa currently has three Co. Chairs; Judge D. Peter Herbert O.B.E. (retired), Olóyè. Yétúndé Bintu Asika, The Ọ̀tún Ìyálóde of Orile Ilawọ (Nigeria) and Dr. Myrna Kalsi, (Kenya) who are directed by an advisory Council of global experts with whom they consult on a regular basis.
The geographical reach of Bandung Africa is assisted by the fact that one of our Co. Chairs, Mrs. Yetunde Asika, a leading human rights lawyer, is based in Lagos, Nigeria and has access to high level contacts in West Africa, elsewhere on the continent, and in the wider diaspora. In Kenya the other Co. Chairs, Dr. Myrna Kalsi, an internationally renowned forensic odontologist, is leading on the international project to identify Mau Mau remains across Kenya and Retired U.K Judge, Chair of the Society of Black Lawyers UK and former Chair of the Metropolitan Police Commission U.K. Hon. Peter Herbert O.B.E has extensive reach and relationships both in the U.K, U.S and Kenya.
Members of Bandung Africa have a long history of fighting for justice around the world through campaigns and advocacy and conferences.
Our Chairs have a successful track record of collective experience in campaigning and lobbying spanning over 50 years. That coupled with their commitment to transparency and integrity has earned them significant partnerships with internationally renowned organisations such as the Society of Black Lawyers U.K, the Society of Asian Lawyers U.K, Blaksox, Operation Black Vote U.K and the U.K Black Business Entrepreneurs Conference by Aspire. They have also established strong and valuable political connections with notable Members of Parliament in the UK, the USA Congressional Black Caucus, the National Bar Association in the USA, the Commonwealth Magistrates and Judges Association and the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) in Tanzania, the African Court of Human and People’s Right, the Office of the Registrar, the Permanent Secretary to the Environment and other various influential human rights activists and notable figures.
Bandung Africa has put on five annual international conferences, we have a bouquet of climate change programmes and initiatives and we are currently preparing for our annual conference in November 2026 and our 2026 programmes and initiatives.
Dr. Myrna Kalsi is a forensic specialist. She is an editorial board member at Forensic Science International Synergy and the founder of the African Women in Forensics Initiative (AWOFO). Her fourteen-year experience covers the public sector at the Ministry of Health and the Division of Forensic Services at the International Commitee of the Red Cross. She has also served in the capacity of Regional Forensic Coordinator in the Near and Middle East.
Dr. Myrna Kalsi is passionate about the interplay of the governance of forensic science, its role within the Criminal Justice Systems, its enormous value in addressing human rights violations and the contribution of the same to regional and global goals such as Agenda 2063 of the African Union and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Dr. Myrna Kalsi is also a member of the board at Amnesty International Kenya and she is a very dedicated and passionate Patron of Bandung Africa.
Currently, she is independent and pursuing her passion in forensic science governance with a focus on human rights and the attainment of the sustainable development goals.
Hon. Judge Peter Herbert O.B.E (retired) is a leading U.K Human Rights Barrister, a former lead Counsel at the International Criminal Tribunals Rwanda and a retired U.K Judge.
Judge Herbert has held three Judicial posts as a part-time Immigration Judge, Employment Judge and a Recorder in the Crown Court.
He is the former Vice Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority in London and he was the founder and Chair of the Metropolitan Police Race Hate Crime Forum which successfully led the MPS in combating hate crime in the capital.
Judge Herbert is a Pan-Africanist who Chairs the Society of Black Lawyers in the UK as well as the Pan-African Lawyers Association’s Diaspora Committee and as part of the Judicial Studies Board, Judge Herbert has trained judges between 1991 and 1995. He has also led several international refugee missions to Sicily, Calais & Lebanon.
Judge Peter was awarded national honours, Order of the British Empire, (OBE), in 2010 by the Queen of England for his services to diversity, equality and human rights. He was also awarded the “Spirit of Excellence” award for human rights by the American Bar Association.
Olóyè. Yétúndé Bintu Asika, (The Ọ̀tún Ìyálóde of Orile Ilawọ, Ogun State, Nigeria), is a leader in the efforts to promote democratic practice and economic advancement by being at the forefront of civil society work globally for years.
She is the COO of African Leadership Council; an exclusive network of Africa’s most outstanding leaders from various sectors, including political, business and thought leaders, policy titans, entrepreneurs, and executives.
She is an accomplished consultant in strategy & governance and a driven senior executive with more than 20 years of experience working with both the private and public sectors.
Her advocacy efforts are centred around governance in Nigeria where she chairs several boards including Impact Lagos and also serves as a trustee for several NGOs.
From a legal background since 2000, Yetunde is a former ICTR Legal Practitioner and a former U40Y Advisory Panel to the U.K Home Secretary providing strategic recommendations to Members of Parliament on various processes of government and law, she is Vice President of the National Board of SBL U.K. and she is a former Associate Partner of Rose Chambers.
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