What we do
Our work
01 / Work
Cultural documentation and digital archiving
Structured, searchable records of oral histories, artistic traditions, craft knowledge, governance systems, and endangered languages across all 250+ ethnic nations.
02 / Work
The Nigerian Prosperity Index
Our flagship programme. A community-grounded framework for measuring human flourishing in Nigeria on its own terms - not borrowed ones from outside the continent.
03 / Work
Prosperity research
Original research on indigenous knowledge systems, precolonial governance models, and communal economic frameworks - and how they speak to contemporary development.
04 / Work
Traditional skills and knowledge transmission
Education programmes ensuring craft knowledge, indigenous technical skills, and ecological practices live in the hands of the next generation - not just in archives.
05 / Work
Ecological knowledge and sustainability
Centuries of indigenous understanding of land, water, plants, and seasons as a practical resource for contemporary environmental challenges and policy.
06 / Work
Prosperity from below
Studying Nigeria's informal trade networks, artisanal economies, rotating savings groups, and apprenticeship systems as sophisticated development frameworks.
07 / Work - New
Disaster prevention and relief research
Studying how traditional risk knowledge, early warning practices, and communal safety nets inform community resilience and crisis response today.
08 / Work - New
Conservation and ecological heritage
Partnering with communities to protect the natural environments their knowledge is built on. Biodiversity and cultural knowledge rise and fall together.
09 / Work
Language and knowledge preservation
Working with linguists, community elders, and cultural custodians to document endangered languages and the entire worlds of knowledge encoded within them.