Launching in Nigeria · then Africa · then the world
Africa's stories deserve to live forever.
Discover, preserve, and celebrate African culture through one digital home built for generations. A trusted archive of languages, festivals, foods, music, oral histories, and the everyday knowledge that makes us who we are.
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The knowledge we lose today, no one gets back tomorrow.
Culture doesn\'t vanish in a single moment. It fades quietly. A proverb un-taught, a festival un-recorded, a recipe un-passed. Heritage360 exists to hold the line.
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Today
- 1500s. European contact begins reshaping cultural memory across the continent.
- 1800s. Colonial borders split ethnic nations; many oral traditions go undocumented.
- 1960s. Independence sparks a cultural renaissance, but archives remain scattered.
- Today. The last generation of many living traditions is with us right now.
Every face is a chapter of a continent still being written.
Lagos, NigeriaA language dies every two weeks.
UNESCO estimates that half of the world's 7,000 languages will disappear this century. Many of them African. Each loss takes an entire way of knowing with it.
Oral history has no server.
For generations, wisdom has passed from elder to child. When the elders go, the archive goes with them, unless we make new ways to hold it.
Preservation is a choice we make now.
Heritage360 turns everyday memory into a durable record: verified by custodians, honored by community, and open to future generations.
One home for everything a culture is.
Heritage360 brings together the tools, media, and community rituals that make cultural knowledge easy to find, delightful to learn, and safe to preserve.
Discover Cultures
An atlas of ethnic groups, kingdoms, and traditions. Explore by geography with interactive maps, from Yorubaland to the Great Rift Valley.
Language Library
Phrases, alphabets, and spoken audio in living African languages, recorded by native speakers.
Festivals, Music & Dance
Rituals, masquerades, and ceremonies, with the rhythms and celebrations that carry culture across generations.
Foods & Everyday Life
From jollof to injera, the recipes and daily practices that carry a people's memory.
Oral Histories & Archives
Elder recordings, folktales, long-form documentaries. Transcribed, indexed, and preserved with dignity.
Verified by Custodians
Every entry reviewed by cultural custodians and moderators. Provenance you can point to.
Also inside
- Historical sites
- Photo galleries
- Video archive
- Audio stories
- Research resources
- Personal collections
- Contributor profiles
- Donations
- Gamification
- Offline learning
Nigeria first. Then Africa. Then the diaspora.
We\'re starting where the archive can go deepest, then expanding continent-wide with local custodians leading in every region.
Nigeria
Launch: 250+ ethnic groups, 500+ languages
Built slowly, on purpose.
We move at the speed of trust. Each phase deepens partnerships with the communities whose culture we're honored to help preserve.
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Phase 1
Now
Nigeria
Depth over breadth. Partnering with cultural custodians across 250+ ethnic groups to build the first fully verified archive.
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Phase 2
2026
West Africa
Ghana, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, and neighbors, connecting shared traditions across borders.
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Phase 3
2027
Pan-Africa
East, Central, North, and Southern Africa. A continent-wide, custodian-led archive.
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Phase 4
2028+
Global Diaspora
Bridging the archive with communities in the Americas, Europe, the Caribbean, and beyond.
The fabric that speaks before we do.
Regalia is language. A shúkà, an agbada, a kente wrap. Each one carries a story about who we are, where we come from, and what we're becoming. These are a few of the many Heritage360 will help preserve.
Mozambique
Coordinated dress
A shared garment turns a gathering into a statement.
West Africa
Ceremonial attire
Every bead, every fold, a form of memory.
Kenya
Maasai regalia
Red and blue shúkà — worn across generations.
Ghana
Fugu, restyled
A tradition, worn with today's swagger.
Lagos, Nigeria
Ankara tailoring
The new dress code — sharp, floral, unmistakably Lagos.
Kenya
Beadwork as biography
Each strand carries family, status, and season.
Region spotlightLokoja, Kogi State
Where the Niger and Benue meet.
Home to the Igala, Ebira, and Okun-Yoruba, where three peoples share one heritage.
Photography: Graca Assane · Ibrahima Toure · Ana Singh · Oswald Elsaboath · Prince Akachi · Jan Canty · Mathias Owa Martins. Full attribution in CREDITS.md.
Built by the communities it belongs to.
No single team could ever hold a continent's memory. Heritage360 is a coalition of elders and students, custodians and creators, museums and diaspora communities, each adding their thread to a shared inheritance.
- Elders
- Traditional Rulers
- Historians
- Researchers
- Storytellers
- Students
- Museums
- Tourism Boards
- Universities
- NGOs
- Content Creators
- Diaspora
"When an elder dies, a library burns." Amadou Hampâté Bâ
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Stories waiting
Elder
Kampala, Uganda
Custodian
Tessaoua, Niger
Storyteller
Lagos, Nigeria
Diaspora
London, UK
Photography: Lisa Marie Theck · Aliburhan S · Prince Akachi · Jessica Felicio. See CREDITS.md for full attribution.
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