WikiCred/2022 CFP/Audiovisual recordings of oral knowledge of Yoruba traditional approaches to reproductive health
Our idea is to record quality audiovisuals of Yoruba's indigenous approaches to reproductive health in the form of oral tradition. There are cultural approaches to reproductive health from country to country. Traditional healers adopt different approaches to treating infertility in both males and females, and this varies from culture to culture. The Yoruba and Chinese traditional healers do not adopt the same approach and have different methods of treating mastitis for example.
| Audiovisual recordings of oral knowledge of Yoruba traditional approaches to reproductive health | |
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| A WikiCred 2022 Grant Proposal | |
| Project Type | Other |
| Author | (Agbalagba) |
| Contact | jerrykufang22@gmail.com |
| Requested amount | NGN 4,320,000 (USD 10,000) |
| Award amount | Unknown |
- What is your idea?
This project aims at documenting Yoruba traditional approaches to reproductive health using audiovisuals. These include the Yoruba traditional approach managing psychosis, mastitis, genital mutilation, infertility, and family planning to mention a few.
- Why is it important?
There had been some knowledge gaps about traditional approaches to reproductive health. Although several types of research had been conducted and published about reproductive health in general, only a few focus on “Yoruba traditional approaches”. Little or nothing has been orally documented on Yoruba indigenous or traditional approaches to reproductive health and released under a free license. This project is important in bridging this gap.
- Link(s) to your resume or anything else (CV, GitHub, etc.) that may be relevant
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Agbalagba
- Is your project already in progress?
No. Although, we held the first meeting with the project team prior to submitting this proposal and we have done something similar in the past (see Audiovisuals of Yoruba Indigenous Vocations)
- How is this project relevant to credibility and Wikipedia?
Audiovisual evidence generally improves information credibility. Audiovisual recording of oral knowledge of Yoruba traditional approaches to reproductive health would help improve the credibility, reliability, and accuracy of existing textual contents on Wikipedia, and could serve as an additional citation for existing contents that have been written on related topics (a form of oral citation).
- What is the ultimate impact of this project?
The ultimate impact of this project includes but is not limited to
1. Recording of at least 10 audiovisual recordings of oral knowledge of Yoruba traditional approaches to reproductive health, and each recording not less than 20-30 minutes in length
2. Uploading at least 10 audiovisual recordings of oral knowledge of Yoruba traditional approaches to reproductive health to Wikimedia Commons under a free license (CC-BY-SA 4.0)
3. Using the audiovisuals recording on existing related articles
4. Publication of the project outcome on Wikimedia Diff and any other platforms recommended by WikiCred
5. The audiovisual recordings would be shared with the National Library of Nigeria, other libraries (public and private libraries), the National Archive, academic institutions, and the National Association Of Nigerian Traditional Medicine Practitioners.
- Can your project scale?
Yes, our project is scalable and measurable, as seen in our ultimate impact section above.
- Why are you the people to do it?
We are the people to do it because we are Yoruba Wikimedians User Group, a Wikimedia affiliate with the mandate to improve, promote and bridge knowledge gaps relating to the Yoruba language, people, and culture on Wikipedia. And we have experience working on a similar project (see Audiovisual recordings of Yoruba indigenous vocations)
Core team
- Mikaeel Sodiq - Project Manager: Sodiq hold a Bachelor's degree in Adult education with specialization in Yoruba language. He is the President of the Yoruba Wikimedians User Group and the Executive Producer of Audiovisuals of Yoruba Indigenous Vocations. He was a production manager for at least two awareness campaign videos, Afrocuration Campaign video produced in collaboration with the Moleskine Foundation and a Short Wikipedia Documentary for Wikipedia 20. He would be responsible for managing the project.
- Tunde Oladimeji – Producer/Director: Oladimeji is a versatile and notable Nigerian documentary filmmaker, actor, director and television presenter, known for pioneering documentary film in an indigenous language in Nigeria. Oladimeji is the producer of Yoruba Heritage Documentary series. One of the documentary series, Ibadan was nominated in the best documentary category at the 2020 Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards. He would be responsible for managing the audiovisuals production from pre-production stage to post-production stage.
- Isaac Olatunde - Technical support: Isaac Olatunde is a native speaker of Yoruba language, Yoruba Wikipedia sysop, an expert in copyrights, open knowledge advocate, and project manager with experience in volunteers management and retention. He was the supervising producer of the Audiovisuals of Yoruba Indigenous Vocations and the Executive Producer of the Nigerian Language Oral History Documentation Project. Isaac is the founder of the #WPWPCampaign and past recipient of the WikiCred grant. He would be responsible for managing the elicitation protocol, providing technical support, and project documentation.
- Dansu Peter - Documentation officer: Dansu Peter is a Yoruba language expert and active member of the Yoruba Wikipedia with over 200 articles created on Yoruba Wikipedia. He holds a Bachelor of Art degree (BA) in Yoruba and he will be working on this project as a production and logistics manager.
Related past works
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Ifa
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Ileke sinsin
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Elewe omo
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Gbena-Gbena
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Oti baba ibil
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ona awo riran
- What is the impact of your idea on diversity and inclusiveness of the Wikimedia movement?
This project addresses gaps in knowledge equity and aligns with the Wikimedia movement strategy recommendation on “Innovate in Free Knowledge”.
- What are the challenges associated with this project and how you will overcome them?
1. Finding Yoruba traditional healers - Our location manager for the Audiovisual recordings of Yoruba indigenous vocations, Fadare Faniyi Elerinpin is a Yoruba herbalist. He has expressed interest in being part of this project as both the location manager and liaison to the Yoruba herbalist and traditional healers. 2. The logistics of moving from one location to another - We plan to hire a bus that would convey the crew from one location to another throughout the fieldwork
3. Elicitation protocol - We will adopt the elicitation protocol we used for the Audiovisual recordings of Yoruba indigenous vocations
- How will you spend your funds?
The details of the spending is provided below.
- Producer & Director - NGN 1,000,000
- Cinematographer - NGN 500,000
- Post-Production - NGN 300
- Sound recordist - NGN 200,000
- Stipends for location manager - NGN 100,000
- Stipends for documentation officer - NGN 100,000
- Fieldworks (car hire, food for crew, hotel accommodation for crew) - NGN 2,000,000
- Contingency - NGN 120,000
Total budget - NGN 4,320,000
- How long will your project take?
30th January 2023 - 29th April 2023 (we may adjust the timeline per recommendation from WikiCred)
- Have you worked on projects for previous grants before?
I have worked on a similar project funded by the WMF and at least one of the members of the project core team is a past recipient of the WikiCred grants.