Our Ongoing Projects
Indigenous Hands and Voices Literacy Festival (IHAVLiFest)
This is an annual festival that harnesses STEM literacy through indigenous knowledge. In line with several existing studies, we believe that scientific knowledge is a product of indigenous knowledge, and the knowledge of science and technology becomes holistic when it is traceable to its cultural base as the first indigenous knowledge before it is harnessed into scientific knowledge. This, by extension, enriches the…
Indigenous Sign Language Documentation Project (ISLDP 1)
Deaf in Nigeria are a major minority group with an increasing population. Deaf children are highly marginalized with very poor linguistic and cognitive development resulting from limited access to signed language in the early child development age (0-5). The indigenous Nigerian signed language varieties are marginalized, undocumented, and threatened by the presence of English based signed language used in Schools for the Deaf across the country, which we have described as simply the School Signs…
Indigenous Spoken Language Documentation Project (ISLDP 2)
Just like we have the Indigenous Sign Language Documentation Project as our core project 1 under S-DELI-IH, IHAV brings the Indigenous Spoken Language Documentation Project as our core project 2. We will partner with linguistic communities of different minority and endangered languages to document their language.
The Igbo Literacy Project is a key initiative under IHAV’s commitment to…