Build Nigeria's Oral History Archive Before It Is Lost

Nigeria's indigenous knowledge — medicinal plant use, historical accounts, oral literature, traditional governance systems — is held almost entirely by elderly community members. There is no coordinated national effort to record it, and no accessible platform through which it could be searched or shared with young Nigerians. Your challenge is to design a community-led oral history collection and preservation system. It must enable untrained community volunteers to make quality recordings in any Nigerian language, handle metadata in a structured way that allows future searchability, and store content in a format resilient to power cuts and poor connectivity. Submit a system design (max 10 pages) including: the recording protocol, metadata schema, storage architecture, a plan for building community recorder networks in three pilot states, and a model for how the archive would be governed and maintained long-term. Judging criteria: 40% community accessibility and language inclusion, 25% archival quality and sustainability, 20% governance model, 15% technical resilience.