Last updated: December 28, 2025
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First of all, it’s pronounced Ar-kai-ving, not Ar-kee-vee or Ar-kai-vee. The dot reflects the domain, not the pronunciation.
Archivi.ng is a knowledge institution that’s preserving, organising and contextualising Nigeria’s historical record—currently print and oral histories—and making it accessible to everyone.
From the beginning, Archivi.ng has operated on the assumption that history is infrastructure. Societies rely on it, consciously or not, to understand themselves, interpret change, and make decisions about the future. When that infrastructure is weak, inaccessible or fragmented, collective understanding degrades. Patterns disappear, and mistakes repeat.
Archivi.ng exists to strengthen that infrastructure.
This means our work is not oriented around novelty, speed or short-term relevance. It’s oriented around durability. The choices we make—what we preserve, how to describe it, how to connect it and how to surface it—are made with the expectation that they’ll be relied upon years, even decades, from now.
We’re building Archivi.ng to outlast all individual contributors, leadership, funding cycles, and technological shifts. People will come and go; Archivi.ng must remain coherent.
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