Deadline: 31 October 2025
At Archivi.ng, we digitise Nigeria’s old newspapers and magazines to preserve history and make it accessible to everyone. Our collections open a window to the past, empowering people to explore, learn, and connect history to the present. From publishing new stories in The Archivist to nurturing a community of practice, everything we do has one goal: to keep history alive and within reach.
We’re looking for historians, journalists, researchers, artists, technologists, content creators, economists, analysts and anyone with a deep curiosity about history. We’re looking for people who believe that interrogating the past sharpens our understanding of the present and helps us prepare differently for the future.
The theme of this cohort is framed around Archiving’s great inquiry that we’ve titled The More Things Change. We’re asking a simple question with this inquiry: Why does Nigeria keep repeating the same patterns? In our politics. In our economy. In our daily lives. And everything in between.
The More Things Change is our two-year project interrogating the cycles of repetition in the Nigerian experience. We’ll gather evidence, connect the patterns, and equip people with memory as a tool for fostering change. We want people to see the loop more clearly and break it. The More Things Change is an urgent initiative. Archives continue to deteriorate at a faster rate than we can preserve them. Elders pass on every day, taking with them entire lifetimes of memory and experiences that were never written down. Every loss widens the vacuum.
Running from January 2026 to December 2027, The More Things Change will build a body of evidence, a community of practice, and an engine that makes our collective memory easier to retrieve and harder to forget. We’ll find virtuous cycles that deserve to be reinforced; we’ll find vicious ones that have trapped us and must be broken.
We’ve introduced three project tracks:
- Storytelling: For people producing compelling narratives that connect the past to the present.
- Technology: For people who want to build tools that turn archives into usable context.
- Research: For people producing analysis that reveals patterns and insights.
We’re looking for projects that:
- Align with our mission to make history accessible by discovering, understanding and promoting Nigerian historical perspectives.
- Make significant use of archival materials through analysis, reinterpretation, or tool-building.
- Can be completed within 6 months. Projects where work has already begun are welcome.
- Aim to help people understand patterns and cycles in Nigerian history.
This fellowship is for you if you are:
- Nigerian, at home or in diaspora.
- Deeply curious about Nigerian history.
- Have a proven record of producing knowledge work.
- Comfortable working independently, but open to collaboration.
- Digitally-savvy and fluent in online collaboration tools like Notion and Slack.
- Deeply committed to producing excellent, useful, and publicly accessible.
Benefits of the fellowship:
- N500,000/month stipend.
- At least N1 million in project support.
- Full access to Archiving’s archives and tools.
- Collaborative learning circles with other fellows.
- Personalised mentorship from experienced knowledge workers.
- Publishing, exhibition, or technical integration of your final project.
How to apply
Click here to apply
