Dr. Roi Ankhkara Kwabena was born on the Caribbean island of Trinidad in 1956. He is a cultural anthropologist, who has worked with all age ranges in Europe, Africa, Latin-America and the Caribbean for over thirty-seven years.

He has hosted numerous readings by writers and actively promoted literature development for over thirty years internationally.

He is the founder of AFROETS PRESS ,a publishing co-operative (1974) and Bembe Productions (1979) a cultural collective. Both bodies were involved in making cultural and literary history in the Caribbean.

Roi's poetry has been commissioned for diverse purposes. He has lectured and performed at many schools, universities, cultural and social venues internationally. He currently publishes the acclaimed journal for cultural literacy: dialogue.

In the mid ninety nineties he served as a Senator in the Parliament of his home country.

In 2002, Roi co-founded, "Writers Without Borders" a collective of international writers living in the UK and was influential in the establishing of BLACK HISTORY MONTH as an official annual calendar event in Birmingham City, UK. He also advised the local community on the setting up of the first UK Black owned radio station: New Style FM. In 2007 the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool UK , named Roi A. Kwabena among 76 Greatest Black Achievers in World History.

Roi’s affirmative advocacy has ensured his suitability for a variety of specialist projects addressing wide ranging issues such as functional and Cultural literacy, therapeutic harvesting of Memories by elders and young people (including cross generational dialogue) Anti-Racism, Community Cohesion, Social Inclusion, Cultural Diversity, redefining the Heritages of Indigenous peoples plus confidence building for prisoners, excluded and traumatised students, Refugees, etc.

 Dr Kwabena is renowned for using critical analysis to examine the historical roots of racism and to assess the direct relevance this has on our lives today.