 All right. Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, everyone, from wherever you are joining us from. My name is Emmanuel Obiajulu. I'm from Nigeria. And today, I will be sharing our, on the projects we had, our with the aid. Please slide please. Okay. Just a second. Slide is coming up. Okay. So we're speaking on the aid projects. The aid is an acronym that actually means audiovisual of evil dances. We are talking of culture. Culture, as we know, is a way of life of a particular people. But this culture, when it is lost, then automatically we lose the culture or we lose the essence of these people. Basically, there has been this conception among the senior citizens in the culture of Nigeria, most especially the evil culture in the southern eastern parts of Nigeria. And this culture is that this contraception is that so many persons are beginning to clamor that we are losing the touch of evil traditional culture. And this is because most of these are dances that we know that has been ancient to this culture. Most of the time it has started going into extinction. And because of this, so many people are forgotten about these dances. This is the essence we decided to carry out this project to make sure that we'll bring this culture as well as these dances back to limelight. Looking at Nigeria, we have over 371 ethnic groups which are further broken down into tribes. In Nigeria, as it stands, in the southern parts, this project decided to take a tour and explore five different states in Nigeria, in the eastern part of Nigeria. We have the Emo state, we have the Anambra state, Enugu state, Abia state, and Ebon state. With this project, we are able to tour these rural areas and we are able to document 16 other visuals as well as 25 images of evil dances. In the course of this presentation, we'll be playing some of these dances for you, a thriller, so that you can have a feel of what this culture is like for the eastern parts of Nigeria. And also in the course of this presentation, we'll be taking you through the experiences, the value, the implementation, the impact as well as the theme that carried out this project. So at this point, I'll be inviting my co-presenter, and the person of Mr Chibike, to tell us more about this. Thank you. Alright, welcome back ladies and gentlemen. So I'll be speaking on why we implemented these aid projects. There are so many reasons why we actually implemented these aid projects, but I'll just spotlighting just a few of them to actually give us the glimpse of how this project went and all what was involved. Okay. So bear with me. Okay. Good. Okay, the first is to bring in the unique knowledge and dance culture of the evils, people in the form of license for the visual, audio recording, and images in digital space through the Wikimedia project. Now we understand that evil actually have a rich culture when it comes to the dance, when it comes to dancing. And most of these, as Mr Chibike rightly said, that they are not well documented in digital space. So we embarked on this project in order to create that visibility, in order to create that documentation for all these dances in the Wikimedia space. This is one of the reasons why we actually implemented this project, and also to showcase the beautiful culture of the indigenous Igbo people. Also, in the course of what you've been watching this trailer, you've also discovered that so many of these dances, they are beautiful attire, which are unique to these dances. And as a source, it makes them unique to their culture, and you can take the culture away from this beauty, therefore creating a big value for them. Then also to preserve these dances and the stories behind it. You get to discover that they are ancient stories that are tied to these dances as well as tied to the culture, that you can't separate either of them. So this project ends up trying to preserve not just the dances alone, but the stories behind them. Then another fact why we also embarked on it was to ensure history is told by the right people who are actually indigenous to it. Now we also discovered that most of the time history are not being told by the right people, therefore this actually distorts history to an extent. But this project goes down to the indigenous people, the original owners of these dances as well as of this culture, thereby making them tell us how it came about, then documenting it for them. in the years to come there won't be any issue in terms of this story or this dance does not belong to a particular tribe or does not belong to a particular tribe. So with this you can easily make a reference to such a documentation on the wiki space to do this. So having said this we'll be playing the thriller of this video that encompasses a few of these dances we add. Remember I told you we had 16 dances so there's a thriller that just applies each and every one of them. So at this point we'll be playing just sit back relax and enjoy it thank you. All right so you're all welcome back I hope you all enjoy that video and I don't know if the audio was audible enough. Whatever from the video you could see the dances you could see the culture you could see as they were being interviewed. So all these ended up summarizing the whole idea of this project. So going further I'll be speaking on how people are receiving this work we have done and I'll be inviting Mr. Chibi, my co-presenter, to tell us how people have been receiving this work. Okay however let me just take a little of it. So looking at what we've done so far we discovered that from the youtube channel okay you could see the video thank you this means when you speak. Okay good it's yummy okay wonderful okay okay so from the from the interaction we had after posting this video on youtube we discovered that we have 47 subscribers and 6,303 viewers. Within since June we posted it and they're still counting so what this entails is that people are actually looking at for such content are both on the wikimedia space and on the contemporary media social media so therefore because this actually brings them closer to their culture making them feel the vibe of what it means for them to be even within their indigenous community so which means they want to actually enjoy more of this so that is why we have such a number of views within the short period of time and also the impact this work has created replication of similar projects by the Anglican community in India now we understood that we started this project at first but now it has started going wrong for people to actually imitate and do similar thing and what this end up impacting on our community it makes us be able to notice those cultural that we need to actually document so that at the end of the day we don't end up losing this culture at the time of either at the course of time or any other eventualities that might happen and also it has inspired the ebook wikimedia community to share in the joy of language and support in the outreach the wikimedia ebook community actually will come this project with a huge excitement because what this end of showing is that it showed them that they can actually stay wherever they are and people will understand the culture wherever they are and also it deepens the in-depth knowledge of what this dances means to everyone so for the community of the ebook community as large they were really excited having this to share with everyone then also the podcast series and work to document both on the US Library of Congress and so we also have this documented we have series of podcasts on it which actually also impacted in different ways through the review we've got so thank you very much at this point I'll be also be inviting my co-presenter Shibike to give us the next slide while he speaks on it thank you very much all right guys thank you very much yes the last note so we actually thank you for giving us the time to speak and also share our experience with this aid project and so we are excited we'll be dropping the link of this old video of the project also both funding wikimedia all across wikimedia projects so we'll be seeing them there so thank you for giving us the time we really appreciate and if you have any question we are open to them thank you