2025 marks ten years since the Rhodes Must Fall Oxford movement began. At Race & Resistance, we will be dedicating space in our series across the year to the past, present, and future of the movement.
This week, we will be inviting several figures of the movement, past and present, to take part in a roundtable discussion, which will be a brilliant opportunity to ask some of the questions you may have developed over our week 1 and 2 sessions. The discussion will be guided by your thoughts and opinions, however, we will also come prepared with prompts to spark conversation.
Raphael Zion Itai Yohanan Nur—“ZIYN”—is Principal Creative at Nyar K’Odero Group, a Black-owned 360° communications agency orientated towards social transformation. The name “Nyar K’Odero,” meaning “Women of the Homeland,” stands as both tribute and totem, honouring the legacies of mothers and foremothers whose intuitive knowledge, rootedness, and faithful defiance shape paths to freedom. For ZIYN, creation is an act of nurture and resistance—an unyielding gesture towards what is yet to exist.
In all his endeavours, ZIYN is guided by a conviction that stories must serve as more than spectacle or consolation: they are the heart of problem-solving and possibility-making, forging strategies from the fragments of memory and vision. Through narrative, he challenges us to reorient our gaze, honour silences, and press ever towards freedom.
André Jahnoi Dallas is a Liverpool-based decolonial artist and activist of Afro-Jamaican descent whose work seeks to illuminate and challenge the downpression of the Babylon systems which bound the ways we imagine the world and our place in it. Since organising with Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford, he has played a significant role in the development of People & Planet’s Divest Borders campaign, through which UK students are demanding that their universities sever ties with the border industry.
Dr Sarah Atayero is a British Nigerian clinical psychologist and director at the BiPP Network. She is a University of Oxford alumni who studied Experimental Psychology (2013-2016) and helped to establish the Rhodes Must Fall Oxford movement in 2015. With over seven years’ experience in the NHS, corporate, and third sector, Sarah blends her lived experience as a Black British woman with expertise in systemic and trauma-informed approaches to tackle racial inequities in mental health and psychology. She actively advocates for decolonisation, racial justice, and mental wellbeing through her clinical practice and research.
Through her work at the BiPP Network, Sarah champions Black representation in psychiatry and psychology, fostering collaboration and systemic change. Sarah holds a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Royal Holloway, University of London, where her research focused on the racialised experiences of aspiring psychologists and systemic racism in the NHS. As a consultant, researcher, and speaker, she provides solutions for workplace racial equity, staff wellbeing, and anti-racism. Her work appears in Journal of Mental Health, Clinical Psychology Forum, Health Education, The Psychologist, and the anthology The Colour of Madness: Mental Health and Race in Technicolour (2022).
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