The institute will also generate income to sustain its activities. Moreover, there are many credible practitioners in varied forms of African science and technology in both tangible and intangible cultural heritage as well as material but are dispersed; creating a challenge for the development of the African culture, science, technology, art and craft of African knowledge. Albeit, credentialism and foreign languages as medium of education marginalize these practitioners in the African indigenous knowledge from mainstream research, academia, innovation and dissemination, branding and trading to competitive level. The Institute wants to contribute to a future that is based on the ideas, structures, methods and approaches of indigenous knowledge and technologies.
