About Ulimwengu

Ulimwengu

Asiyefunzwa na mamaye, hufunzwa na Ulimwengu: one not taught by their mother learns from the world. Ulimwengu develops society through providing alternative learning that fills structural gaps not covered by formal schooling.

Educere, a Latin mother word of education, meant to draw out. That is the work: drawing out potential.

A sovereign society

Sovereignty begins in the person: one who stops waiting on others for the change they want. Sovereign people build sovereign institutions, the kind that can be handed down. We call them heirlooms.

Ulimwengu builds that person on 3 pillars. Each works on the person and on what the person runs, so a pillar is never only a reading list: it is people and processes, together.

• Identity, grounded people and processes: where we come from, and the histories thus far, told from our records.
• Character, sound people and processes: how a person governs themselves, in body and in conduct, better known in Africa as morality.
• Enterprise, value driving people and processes: how people provide for themselves and each other, the exchange of value between people.

How we handle your data

Kenya’s Data Protection Act, 2019, guides how we treat what people entrust to us.

This site counts its visits with Google Analytics, which keeps a cookie in your browser. We see totals: which pages are read, from which countries, and which buttons are pressed. We never see names. Nothing else is collected here; what you send us by WhatsApp, call or email stays with us.

Beginnings

Ulimwengu found its starting line in the systems people and societies build: what they are meant to do, and where they are actually heading.

As Black societies, we barely control our narratives, and are controlled by the narratives told to us. Ulimwengu comes in as a complementary education initiative: a project to build a living, learning synthesis of data and history, so that a culture can determine its narratives, learn from itself, and build futures of its own design.