Projects

The Africa Renaissance Project – A Tourism, Linguistics and Oral History Project

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, in and after the 15th Century , saw millions of African peoples transported in slave-ships through the Atlantic Ocean to Europe and the Americas. This project portrays and brings to the fore the untold stories of countless heroes who gave up their lives for the sake of freedom and identity. It also celebrates the lost or near extinct tradition and tales of Africa.

The Ikom Monoliths Project – A Heritage Conservation and Tourism Development Project

The Ikom monoliths, (over 300 of them) are carved stones with enigmatic inscriptions that were discovered in the turn of the 20th Century, located in the villages of Ikom Local Government (and environs) in Cross River State Nigeria, left behind by ancient Africans dating back thousands of years. The CARC team headed by Dr. Ajay Prabhakar has been studying and enlisted the monoliths in the World Monument Fund 2008 Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites and brought spotlight on these pillaged pieces of culture.

The Life and works of Olaudah Equiano - A Geneaology and Literary Project

This project studies and celebrates the life, the legacy and the work of Gustavus Vassa or Olaudah Equiano, the first slave to write his biography. Equiano was a great literary craftsman who wrote to successfully appeal to all segments of the society and his book was an instant bestseller. It was at the same time a slave narrative, a sentimental novel and an adventure story, but more than all that, an irrepressible abolitionist tool.

Igbale Aiye, The Lost City Archaeological Project.

Deep in the heart of Apkotokou forest in the border town of Ketou, Republic of Benin is Igbale Aiye, the archaeological site of our team.Tagged Renaissance Challenge Project, the promoters of the ancient excavated city led by Olofindji Akande, The Vizier, are convinced that such archaeological efforts will transform the stigma of slavery, which is believed to have stunted growth and the development of black nations, into huge wealth for the humanity, thus promoting rebirth of humanity, by the rebirth of Africa and her culture.

Lejja/Nsukka - The World’s Oldest Prehistoric Iron-Smelting Technology

Lejja is located in Old Nsukka division in Enugu State, in Igbo land, South-Eastern geopolitical zone of Nigeria in West Africa. The site boosts of vast physical evidence that Lejja is housing the most ancient and most world-renowned Shrine of antiquity – a shrine known in all world mythologies as the Egyptian ‘Temple of the Sun’. The Lejja prehistoric iron smelting site was recently dated 2,000 B.C. by the Oxford University laboratory in UK, and this date confirms Lejja as the oldest iron smelting site in the world!Lejja iron smelting technology provides physical proof that Africa was the origin of world civilization!