Arafat Oluwatoyosi Teriba (born 1995), better known as Annie Teriba, is a Nigerian-British student activist at Oxford University's Wadham College. ^[1] She has campaigned for many progressive causes, including anti-racist, feminist, LGBTQ+ rights, and student debt issues, on which subjects she has been widely quoted in the media. ^[1] She was formerly the editor of No HeterOx**, a radical-left Zine for queer and trans voices, and the Wadham College student union's People of Colour and Racial Equality Officer. In October 2015, she resigned from her positions amid a scandal wherein she claimed to have committed non-consensual sexual acts against two women.

Teriba grew up in a small flat in North Woolwich, a working-class neighborhood of East London. Along with her two older siblings, she was raised primarily by her mother, an immigrant from Igbara-oke, Nigeria, who worked as a school custodian. As a child, she was described as possessing prodigal intelligence, and was a top student at Coopers' Company and Coborn School, where she was introduced to Debate Mate, an educational charity which teaches Competitive debating in disadvantaged urban schools. She was described as a "poster child" for the organization.

Teriba went on to study History and Politics at Oxford, where she rapidly became involved in the school's public life.

She joined multiple student organizations and quickly rose to leadership positions.

Richard Price writes that "there are few students at Oxford University who would not recognise her on sight", even among students disinterested in activism, and that by the end of her first year she was "the undisputed voice of the university’s black, ‘queer and trans’ [transsexual] communities."

She also organized weekly dance parties.

A member the famed Oxford Union debating society commented that she despised that organization because she regarded it as full of White privilege, and was more likely to be found "clubbing and drinking" or engaged in a protest. Nevertheless, she ran for Secretary of the Oxford Union in 2014, and lost by three votes.

Teriba was heavily involved in numerous activist groups at Oxford, including Rhodes Must Fall, the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts, and the National Unions of Students black students' committee. She was interviewed by Sky News concerning the campaign to demolish a 100-year-old statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oxford's Oriel College, stating "There's a violence to having to walk past the statue every day on the way to your lectures, there's a violence to having to sit with paintings of former slave holders whilst writing your exams - that's really problematic."

In October 2014 she wrote in support of mandatory consent workshops, even for sexually inactive students, arguing that "consent isn’t just about penetrative or oral sex, or even just about sexual encounters - you need to seek consent if you run the risk of violating someone’s boundaries, even if you don’t have sexual ‘designs’ on them or can’t be attracted to them."

In March 2015 she co-organized a "queer kiss-in cellar" as a form of nonviolent direct action in response to an instance of homophobic abuse experienced by two gay students.

During her first year at Oxford, she founded the radical-left zine No HeterOx**, a political and artistic publication for the LGBTQ+ community. ^[1] Its manifesto stated it would "affirm the polymorphous perversity of our a/sexualities and seek to speak for our own bodies, lives and loves". The project was received with much enthusiasm. Initially, the zine accepted submissions from heterosexual students. Later, the zine gained notoriety for purging students based on their actual or suspected politics. "Zionists" or "Zios" were unwelcome, leading to allegations that the zine was anti-Semitic. An administrator for the zine commented that "the endemic problem is one of white cis men, blissfully ignorant of their privilege". The zine banned dozens of white gay cis-men in late June 2015. A student commented that others were expelled based on what posts they had "liked" on Facebook.

In October 2015, Teriba posted a message on her facebook profile which asserted that she had engaged in non-consensual sex with two students at an NUS conference the previous May.

The statement, which Emily Shire describes as "self-flagellating", was based on her firm belief in a Yes Means Yes standard of consent, which requires explicit and ongoing permission for all sexual conduct. Following a trigger warning, she wrote in part

She also wrote that in a separate event she had touched someone while dancing in a club, and was later alerted to this having been non-consensual, adding "Therefore, this is not an isolated incident."

Emily Shire writes that she was vilified by her peers, and that her statement "encompasses so many of the problems raised by those who fear campus sexual assault reform is swinging toward vague, confusing regulations that are stacked against the accused."

The Oxford Student Union's Women Campaign responded by stating it did not condone the statement, writing in part

Its Vice President added "In a society which silences survivors and which tolerates rape apologism it is essential that liberation spaces do not harbour or protect abusers, otherwise they are no better than the institutions which perpetuate oppression."

The alleged survivors also weighed in against Teriba, calling for her to be held accountable, and writing that "after having experienced flashbacks and connecting to their conscious memory, the survivor was able to piece together the events in a more coherent manner..."

Police were not involved.