Our knowledge
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to fill the gaps.
We hold whole
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What
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Ijeruka?
Ijeruka is a vibrant virtual education platform uniting the global African diaspora through collective learning and exploration. Through Ijeruka, we honor, amplify and advance our boundless creative capacity and unique insights and perspectives as people of African descent, by engaging in transformative conversations that span culture, consciousness, social and systems change.
What We're Creating
Explore timeless traditional knowledge and paradigm-shifting perspectives on the most important topics of our time.
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Courses
Dive into transformative education with Ijeruka's courses, featuring visionary voices and world-changing ideas. These courses are a conduit for critical inquiry and a celebration of African-descendant wisdom
Courses
Events
Participate in impactful dialogues at Ijeruka's events. From seminars to interactive sessions, these events span disciplines, generations, and geographies.
Events
Library
Our growing content library is a rich repository of knowledge, amplifying the voices and contributions of African-descendant minds.
Library
Bespoke projects
Invite Ijeruka to collaborate, produce, facilitate or advise on bespoke programs, events, educational offerings, and research projects.
Bespoke projects
Meet Ijeruka’s founder: Anwulika Okonjo
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Our unique experiences, wisdom, questions and creations matter. They have a home here.
Our histories, cultures and knowledge as people of African descent are immeasurably important. They shape who we are, how we relate to others, and what we believe is possible. Yet, around the world, I have experienced firsthand how they have been undervalued, co-opted and erased.
Some of the world’s most brilliant thinkers and change-makers are people of African descent. They are reclaiming our stories, honouring our traditions and catalysing new paths forward.
Born from an urgency to reach students, professionals, and lifelong learners often left behind by mainstream education systems and media, but who are nonetheless determined to contribute to critical conversations, Ijeruka champions contextually-rich, transformative education that attends to the entirety of our being – education that helps us to understand ourselves as much as the world around us.
Some of the world’s most brilliant thinkers and change-makers are people of African descent. They are reclaiming our stories, honouring our traditions and catalysing new paths forward.
Born from an urgency to reach students, professionals, and lifelong learners often left behind by mainstream education systems and media, but who are nonetheless determined to contribute to critical conversations, Ijeruka champions contextually-rich, transformative education that attends to the entirety of our being – education that helps us to understand ourselves as much as the world around us.
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MEANS 'WHAT LIES AHEAD IS GREATER' IN IGBO
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Every idea, every story and every insight is a gateway for new possibilities.
We are past the point of return. Here you can reconnect, resensitise, and re-indigenise.
Here is space for deep critical inquiry.
Space to explore new ways of being, seeing and relating,
Freely. Joyfully. Collectively.
Here is space to nourish yourself, challenge yourself, and to enact life-affirming practices in a global melting pot with new peers across continents.
Here is a haven for wisdom, co-creation, and connection.
Here, education is transformation.
Enjoy the journey.
We are past the point of return. Here you can reconnect, resensitise, and re-indigenise.
Here is space for deep critical inquiry.
Space to explore new ways of being, seeing and relating,
Freely. Joyfully. Collectively.
Here is space to nourish yourself, challenge yourself, and to enact life-affirming practices in a global melting pot with new peers across continents.
Here is a haven for wisdom, co-creation, and connection.
Here, education is transformation.
Enjoy the journey.
Partner with us
Join Ijeruka's ecosystem and work with us to deliver impactful programs to a global audience.
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OUR ENDURING PROMISE
CULTIVATE A COMMUNITY OF HOPE.
One that is informed, engaged and empowered to bring about positive change in the world through inner and outer transformation.
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