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About Giyaent

We are a research infrastructure and education company focused on African knowledge systems. The goal is to modernise how the continent's scholarship, cultural material, and institutional archives are structured and accessed in an AI-driven world. The work is not about building another repository but creating the underlying data models, interfaces, and tooling that make African knowledge navigable, searchable, and machine-readable at scale.

Africa's intellectual landscape is broad, deep, and fragmented. Most of it sits in formats that are difficult to index, reference, or integrate into modern research workflows. We address this by building clean information architecture, stable research tools, and AI-ready knowledge structures designed specifically for African contexts. We aim to create the foundational layer that allows researchers, institutions, and future AI systems to work with African knowledge without friction.

Knowledge Reconstruction
ID: KR-101

Pre-Colonial Trade Networks

Mapping fragmented records into a unified timeline of routes, goods, and regional links.

Cultural Memory Index
ID: CM-204

West African Oral Histories

Transforming oral narratives into searchable, structured knowledge strands.

Visual Archives
ID: VA-315

Pan-African Art and Material Culture

Digitising artworks and artefacts and linking them to themes, periods, and regional movements.

Spatial Knowledge
ID: SK-492

3D Landscapes of Historical Cities

Rebuilding archival maps into interactive 3D environments for deeper spatial analysis.

Environmental Records
ID: ER-551

Climate Resilience in Sub-Saharan Systems

Integrating dispersed datasets into a single comparative evidence base.

Urban Dynamics
ID: UD-628

Urbanisation Trends in Lagos and Kinshasa

Consolidating demographic flows into a coherent urban-growth model.

Health Knowledge Systems
ID: HK-773

Digital Health Records and Patient History

Structuring clinical archives into a stable, accessible research layer.

Preservation Pipeline
ID: PP-889

Endangered Languages

Converting scattered linguistic materials into a unified, indexed reference corpus.

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Knowledge Reconstruction
ID: KR-101

Pre-Colonial Trade Networks

Mapping fragmented records into a unified timeline of routes, goods, and regional links.

Cultural Memory Index
ID: CM-204

West African Oral Histories

Transforming oral narratives into searchable, structured knowledge strands.

Visual Archives
ID: VA-315

Pan-African Art and Material Culture

Digitising artworks and artefacts and linking them to themes, periods, and regional movements.

Spatial Knowledge
ID: SK-492

3D Landscapes of Historical Cities

Rebuilding archival maps into interactive 3D environments for deeper spatial analysis.

Environmental Records
ID: ER-551

Climate Resilience in Sub-Saharan Systems

Integrating dispersed datasets into a single comparative evidence base.

Urban Dynamics
ID: UD-628

Urbanisation Trends in Lagos and Kinshasa

Consolidating demographic flows into a coherent urban-growth model.

Health Knowledge Systems
ID: HK-773

Digital Health Records and Patient History

Structuring clinical archives into a stable, accessible research layer.

Preservation Pipeline
ID: PP-889

Endangered Languages

Converting scattered linguistic materials into a unified, indexed reference corpus.

AΩAΩ