LET’S CONNECT PEER LEARNING PROGRAM ACROSS ZONES IN NIGERIA

2nd Learning Clinic

Let’s Wrap It Up!!!

TOPIC:

Welcome!

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Project Team

Barakat Adegboye

Project Lead

Rhoda James

Facilitator

Blessing Linason

Co-lead

Miracle James

Communication Expert

Highlights of the Project

Let’s Connect Across Zones in Nigeria 2025 is a peer learning initiative that empowers Wikimedia organizers across Nigeria to share knowledge, build skills, and strengthen their communities through regionally inclusive training and support.

Key Highlights:

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• Expanded Reach: Participants were from 10 states across 5 geopolitical zones, moving beyond Kwara State to include states like Abuja, Gombe, Anambra, and Rivers.

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• Participant-Led Sessions: Participants led 16 self-paced sessions, teaching practical on-wiki and off-wiki skills in their own communities.

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• Online Learning Clinics: Two nationwide clinics in March and July 2025 focus on peer support.

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• Localized, Practical Skills: Skills taught include blog writing for Diff, project management, and community building, designed to meet real needs.

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• Flexible, Inclusive Approach: Lessons from past phases shaped a more responsive format, meeting people where they are, even with limited tech access.

ICEBREAKER

Hear from some of the participants

Andikan Eduok

Andikan Efiok Eduok is a Nigerian Wikimedian, community, and social media manager.

A Fellow of the Africa Wiki Women Fellowship.

She contributes to Wikipedia and its sister projects. She is the founder and lead of the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria – Akwa Ibom Network and has served as the Community Engagement Officer for the Wikimedia Niger Delta Network. She led the Train the Trainers South-South Nigeria edition in 2024 and was part of the Wiki Loves Africa 2025 Niger Delta planning committee, where she served as an admin, facilitator, and Jury Coordinator. She was also part of the Nigerian Oral History Documentation Project team in Akwa Ibom State.

She represented the Akwa Ibom Network from the South-south zone, as part of this project.

Ogali Hilary

Hilary is a Nigerian Wikimedian who contributes to Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, and local language Wikipedias. He is the International Facilitator for Wiki Loves Africa, leads the Igbo Wikimedia Commons Hub, and co-founded Heritage Conservation Integration to promote heritage preservation through open knowledge.

He has been organizing the Wiki Loves Africa and Wiki Loves Folklore campaigns in both the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and Igala Wikimedia Community, since 2024.

He has also been involved in coordinating and supporting many photography juries in Nigeria and some African countries.

He represented the Igala Wikimedia Community, Igbo Wikimedians User Group and Heritage Conservation Integration and Wikimedia Zimbabwe Community as part of this project and is from the North Central zone.

GAMES!!!

GAMES!!!

GAMES!!!

Merit Ibekeme

Ibekeme Merit is a librarian, educator, and champion for African storybooks. She is the program manager for the Gombe Wikimedia Network. She is the project lead for "Wikimedia Awareness and Training in Federal College of Education, Gombe, "Upskilling Librarians in Open Knowledge through Wikimedia Projects for Gombe Librarians and also project lead for "Open Knowledge Practices Through Wikimedia Projects for Librarians in Benue State University Markurdi"

Her works cut across promoting literacy and a love of reading among children. She is also a reading and handwriting tutor. Merit has inspired over 4,000 children through African storybooks, helping them fall in love with reading.

She represented the Abuja Wikimedia Community and the Gombe State Wikimedia Community from the North Central and Northeast zones as part of this project.

Lutherking Petercan

My name is Asuru Lutherking Petercan from Rivers State, Nigeria. I studied architecture (B.Tech, MSc, PhD in view). I began contributing to Wikimedia in 2022, fully active by 2023, uploading archives to Commons and creating/editing articles. I founded a GLAM heritage group in Nigeria called Heritage Conservation Integration, and we conduct Wiki workshops to train other heritage professionals. I work with galleries and archives locally and support global GLAM efforts to expand cultural access and participation.

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He represented the Heritage Conservation Integration and Igbo Wikimedia Community User Group from the South South zone of Nigeria, as part of the campaign.

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Comments from

Let’s Connect Working Group Representative

What Went Wrong?

Questions and Answers!

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Let’s keep learning

and connecting together

We have come to the end of the 1st Learning Clinic for Let’s Connect Peer Learning Program in Kwara 2.0