Obi was close friends with fellow activist
Olive Morris and, in 1972, they attempted to visit
Eldridge Cleaver in Algeria, but only made it as far as Morocco. They joined the
British Black Panthers together and met other young black
feminists and
black nationalists such as
Jackie Blake,
Geneva DaCosta and
Stella Dadzie. Also in 1972, the two women
squatted a privately owned property above a laundrette at 121
Railton Road in Brixton. The 121 squat became the
121 Centre and continued to be occupied until 1999. Together with
Beverley Bryan, Obi and Morris established the
Brixton Black Women's Group (BBWG) in 1973. In 2008, Obi set up the Remembering Olive Collective (ROC) in tandem with Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre, intending to commemorate the life of Olive Morris. In 2015, Obi took part in the conference "Black British Feminism: Past, Present and Futures" at the
Black Cultural Archives in
Brixton organised by a new generation of Black British feminists such as
Chardine Taylor-Stone and others. == References ==