Briefs
Real briefs. Real problems. Real work.
Organisations and individuals bring real problems to ATTP and ask for young African perspectives. Pick a brief, do the work, document your thinking, and submit. No experience required. Open to ages 13 to 35.
Close the Finance Gap for Women Smallholder Farmers
Women grow 60–80% of food in sub-Saharan Africa but receive less than 10% of agricultural credit. Design a financial product that actually reaches them.
Give Afrobeats Artists Control Over Their Own Rights
Nigeria's music industry generates hundreds of millions of dollars globally, but most artists have little visibility into how their royalties are calculated or collected. Fix that.
Get 1 Million Nigerian SMEs Trading Online in 12 Months
Most Nigerian small businesses know they should be online. The onboarding process is what stops them. Redesign it from the ground up.
Build Nigeria's Oral History Archive Before It Is Lost
Tens of thousands of Nigeria's oral historians, griots, and knowledge-holders are over 70 years old. Design a system to record, preserve, and make that knowledge accessible before it disappears.
Design Ethical AI Creative Tools Built for African Creators
Most AI image, music, and writing tools are trained on datasets that massively underrepresent African aesthetics. Design an AI creative tool that actually knows what Nigeria looks like.
Teach 100,000 Informal Traders the Digital Skills They Need This Year
Millions of Nigerian market traders are ready to go digital but lack the basic skills to use the tools available to them. Design the training programme that reaches them where they are.
Create a Replicable Creative Hub Model for Nigerian Tier-2 Cities
Lagos has vibrant co-working and creative spaces. Ibadan, Kano, Aba, and Jos have almost none. Design a hub model that actually works outside the Lagos bubble.
Take Design Education Beyond Lagos and Abuja
Nigeria produces world-class designers — almost all of them trained in two cities. Design an accessible, quality design education programme for young people in Kano, Enugu, Calabar, and beyond.
Build a Review System Nigerians Will Actually Trust
Fake reviews and ghost ratings have made Nigerian e-commerce review systems meaningless. Design a trust layer that buyers and sellers can both rely on.
Design the Funding Infrastructure Nigerian Artists Actually Need
Nigerian artists spend more time chasing grants they were never designed for than making art. Build a funding platform that works for the African creative economy.
Map the Barriers Keeping Young Women Out of Trade Skills Training in the North-West
Conduct a structured analysis of the specific barriers that prevent young women in North-West Nigeria from enrolling in and completing vocational and trade skills programmes. The output is a decision-useful brief that a programme designer or state government official could act on.
Map Where Broadband Actually Works in Abuja's Satellite Towns
Conduct a structured connectivity audit of one of Abuja's satellite towns (Lugbe, Kuje, Gwagwalada, or Bwari) and produce a data-backed report on where broadband access is functional, unreliable, or absent entirely.