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What we do

Our work

Cultural documentation and digital archiving

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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.

The Nigerian Prosperity Index

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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.

Prosperity research

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Prosperity research

Original research on indigenous knowledge systems, precolonial governance models, and communal economic frameworks - and how they speak to contemporary development.

Traditional skills and knowledge transmission

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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.

Ecological knowledge and sustainability

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Ecological knowledge and sustainability

Centuries of indigenous understanding of land, water, plants, and seasons as a practical resource for contemporary environmental challenges and policy.

Prosperity from below

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Prosperity from below

Studying Nigeria's informal trade networks, artisanal economies, rotating savings groups, and apprenticeship systems as sophisticated development frameworks.

Disaster prevention and relief research

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.

Conservation and ecological heritage

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.

Language and knowledge preservation

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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.