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Founding

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The founding of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation, and the development of their mission and purposes, have entailed the following formative aspects:

History and Founder

The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation were established in January and February of 2017 by their sole Founder, President and Chair, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku — as part of ongoing work he has carried out for over three decades, leading also to his founding of The Ikoku Charitable Trusts, The Ikoku Group, Publiks Inc, and Humana Sancta. Where appropriate and approved by the Founder, these entities endeavor to coordinate their efforts and resulting service to communities.

Causes and Concerns

The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku Foundation were also founded and developed in response to the concerns below:

Concern for Africa
— the Founder’s abiding concern for and longstanding interest in Africa
Concern for Diasporas
— the Founder’s abiding concern for and longstanding interest in the global diasporas of Africa, in the Americas, Asia, Australasia, and Europe
Concern for Shared Societies
— the Founder’s abiding concern for and longstanding interest in communities and societies of shared concerns and structures with Africa and its global diasporas
Concern for Ethics
— the Founder’s abiding concern for and longstanding interest in issues pertaining to ethics
Concern for the Human and Humane
— the Founder’s abiding concern for and longstanding interest in the human and humane, with the Founder’s insights from such concern proving valuable during several periods, preceding and during the formation of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku Foundation, where this Founder was subject to a set of inhumane behaviors that entailed violations of the autonomy, confidentiality, freedom, liberty, privacy, and sanctity of the Founder’s being, brain, mind, self, soul, and spirit*

*for further regarding these discriminatory and inhumane behaviors, see Incompatibility with Founding

Concern for Difference
— the Founder’s abiding concern for and longstanding interest in issues pertaining to difference, with the Founder’s insights from such concern proving valuable during the aforementioned periods, able to elucidate that — as also experienced by others — such inhumane behaviors depend upon and employ notions of human and perceived difference (including those pertaining to birth and citizenship, culture, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, and sex) to elicit active and passive support for persistent, pervasive and profound violations of a person’s humanness.*

*for further regarding these discriminatory and inhumane behaviors, see Incompatibility with Founding

Mission and Purposes

The Ikoku Foundations’s founding mission and purposes are therefore:

To Foster
— to foster charitable efforts and philanthropy concerned with Africa, its global diasporas, and a range of shared societies of enduring concern to the Founder
To Serve
— to serve a range of communities touched by the Founder, including through disciplines in which he has trained and practiced
To Fulfill
— to fulfill the founding mission as faith-based organizations, abiding by the principles and practices of the Humana Faith
To Succeed
— and to succeed in developing institutions — as well as communities — where the aforementioned behaviors are considered inhumane, as well as unnecessary, and so do not guide on the way to better lives and societies
Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge, Lagos, Nigeria, February 23 2019 (Babatunde Olajide)

Focus

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The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation have several points of focus, as delineated below:

Activities and Administration

The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation’s and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation’s administration, management, and operation are focused in the following ways:

Faith-Based
as faith-based organizations
Independent
as an independent organization
Non-Political
as non-political organizations
Non-Profit
as non-profit organizations
Non-Public, Private
as non-public and private organizations

Further, all actions, activities, agents, arrangements, and their equivalent for, in, of, on behalf of or otherwise relating to The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation are similarly focused and limited to those that have the:

Express
express
Explicit
explicit
Fully Informed
fully informed
Independent
independent
Specific
and specific
Knowledge
knowledge
Review
review
Approval
approval
Authorization
authorization
Consent
and consent
Founder
of the Founder, President and Chair, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku
Only Via
the above only via this Founder’s
Expressly
expressly
Written
written
Instrument
instrument
Signed
signed
Sealed
and sealed

Areas and Efforts

As further described in the Trusts Areas, The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trusts, The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation, and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation work in tandem to administer, develop and fund philanthropic efforts under the auspices of the Trusts Areas of Public Benefit — in the twelve (12) areas below:

Education | Research
Agriculture | Sustenance
Civic Society | Governance
Energy | Infrastructure
Ethics | Research | Care
Human | Environmental | Health
Humanistic | Inquiry | Expression
Public Knowledge
Public Opinion | Civic Discourse
Quality | Innovation
Rights | Covenants
Youth Communities

Benefit and Beneficiaries

Further focusing all activities, affairs, and arrangements of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation, any reference to and use of the terms ā€œbenefit,ā€ ā€œbeneficiaries,ā€ and their equivalent (such as ā€œpublicā€ or natural and legal persons affiliated with, employed, funded or served by The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation) shall not include any persons who engage in, facilitate, or foster, in any way, any of the aforementioned inhumane behaviors against any person, including any violation of the Founder’s being, brain, mind, self, soul, or spirit, or any intentional violation of the Codes and Policies of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation, and, furthermore, shall not include those who do not accord all persons equal and full enjoyment of the basic principles below:

Principles for Consent
principles providing for, protecting and otherwise pertaining to consent
Principles for Confidentiality
principles providing for, protecting and otherwise pertaining to confidentiality
Principles for Privacy
principles providing for, protecting and otherwise pertaining to privacy.
Principles for Mind and Thought
absolute principles — and attendant absolute rights — providing for, protecting and otherwise pertaining to confidentiality and privacy of, as well as autonomy, freedom, and liberty of, mind and thought, especially including the activities and functions of the brain and mind such as cognizing, perceiving, thinking, as well as thinking aloud by, to or with oneself
Principles against Surveillance
principles providing for strict protections against activities that intrude into, track, or violate an individual’s body, mind, or person — including that which follows, identifies, or targets any individual person — as well as against their discriminatory effects and intents

Communities and Customers

Further focusing all activities, affairs, and arrangements of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation, any reference to and use of the terms ā€œcommunities,ā€ ā€œcustomers,ā€ and their equivalent (such as ā€œpublicā€ or natural and legal persons affiliated with, employed, funded or served by The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation) shall not include any persons who engage in, facilitate, or foster, in any way, any of the aforementioned inhumane behaviors against any person, including any violation of the Founder’s being, brain, mind, self, soul, or spirit, or any intentional violation of the Codes and Policies of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation, and, furthermore, shall not include those who do not accord all persons equal and full enjoyment of the basic principles below:

Principles for Consent
principles providing for, protecting and otherwise pertaining to consent
Principles for Confidentiality
principles providing for, protecting and otherwise pertaining to confidentiality
Principles for Privacy
principles providing for, protecting and otherwise pertaining to privacy.
Principles for Mind and Thought
absolute principles — and attendant absolute rights — providing for, protecting and otherwise pertaining to confidentiality and privacy of, as well as autonomy, freedom, and liberty of, mind and thought, especially including the activities and functions of the brain and mind such as cognizing, perceiving, thinking, as well as thinking aloud by, to or with oneself
Principles against Surveillance
principles providing for strict protections against activities that intrude into, track, or violate an individual’s body, mind, or person — including that which follows, identifies, or targets any individual person — as well as against their discriminatory effects and intents

Faith and Spirituality

The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation’s and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation’s faith-based commitments are focused in the following manner:

Humana Faith
that no aspect of their activities, affairs, or arrangements come in conflict, in any way, with the Humana Faith — as administered, defined, interpreted and organized solely by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, as a spiritual faith and spiritual order, Humana Sancta — with such spiritual faith and order to be distinct from, and not based on, conflated with, dependent on or subject to, any other belief system, faith, religion, or spirituality, such as Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Paganism, or Syncretism
MmadỄism
that such nonconflict with the Humana Faith be furthermore grounded in MmadỄism and its basic moral and ethical injunction, formulated in two fundamental claims — į» bu mmadỄ (ā€œthat person is a human beingā€) and į» bỄ nwa mmadỄ (ā€œthat person is someone’s childā€ or ā€œthat person is a human being’s childā€) — that a person must always and fully recognize any other person’s humanity as sacred and true.
Human Being As-is
that such nonconflict with the Humana Faith align with a belief in the sanctity of each human being as-is
Sanctity of Mind, Self, Soul, Spirit
that such nonconflict with the Humana Faith align with a belief that the autonomy, confidentiality, freedom, liberty, privacy, and sanctity of each and every human individual’s being, brain, mind, self, soul, and spirit — as well as attendant rights to such — are inalienable, sacrosanct and thus absolute
Founder’s Mind, Self, Soul, Spirit
that such nonconflict with the Humana Faith align with a core purpose of the organizations to always ensure that the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, enjoys the highest level of, provision for, and protection of the above and all other rights, the above sanctity, and the humane respect and treatment such humanity requires

Incompatibility with Founding

The activities, affairs, and arrangements of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation’s are also focused and limited by the following determinations of incompatibility with the organizations’s founding, mission, and purposes:

Natural Person
where the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, determines that a natural person has engaged in, facilitated, or otherwise fostered, in any way, any of the aforementioned inhumane behaviors, including any violation of the Founder’s being, brain, mind, self, soul, or spirit, or any intentional violation of the aforementioned faith-based-commitments, or any intentional violation of the Codes and Policies of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation
Example of Natural Person
as has been determined, among natural persons, in the cases of Eleanor Marie Brown (AB, Brown; JD, Yale) of Jamaica and the United States of America; Rafael Nadal Parera of Manacor, Mallorca, Spain; Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro of Funchal, Madeira, Portugal; and Jeff Williams of Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, California, United States of America
Legal Person
where the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, determines that a legal person has engaged in, facilitated, or otherwise fostered, in any way, any of the aforementioned inhumane behaviors, including any violation of the Founder’s being, brain, mind, self, soul, or spirit, or any intentional violation of the aforementioned faith-based-commitments, or any intentional violation of the Codes and Policies of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation
Example of Legal Person
as has been determined, among legal persons, in the cases of Leland Stanford Jr University of Palo Alto, California, United States of America; and The New York Times Company of New York City, New York, United States of America
State Person
where the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, determines that a government, public or state authority, entity, office, or person has engaged in, facilitated, or otherwise fostered, in any way, any of the aforementioned inhumane behaviors, including any violation of the Founder’s being, brain, mind, self, soul, or spirit, or any intentional violation of the aforementioned faith-based-commitments, or any intentional violation of the Codes and Policies of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation
Example of State Person
as has been determined, among state persons, in the cases of officials in elected offices of the city, congressional district, and local supervisor district 3 of San Francisco, California, United States of America
Or Whenever Violation Occurs
or whenever any of the above persons commits any of the above behaviors or violations, even without the determination or knowledge of this Founder
Shall Be Incompatible
such person shall become and remain incompatible with the founding, mission, and purposes of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation, as well as their administration, development, governance, management, operation, supervision, or equivalent
Shall Be Unqualified
and as such shall become and remain unqualified to be an agent of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation, in any capacity, especially that of decision-making, leading, stakeholding, or voting, including as part of their administration, governance, management, operation, supervision, or equivalent, or as a recipient of any assets, contract, funding, properties, support, work, or equivalent.
With No Removal or Reduction of Founder
and furthermore, there shall be no manner, means, or possibility of removal, replacement or equivalent — or delegation, diminishment, reduction, or equivalent of the sole executive powers — of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, in any way, for any period, under any circumstances, or for any benefit, end, goal, interest, mission, need, objective, purpose, reason, or equivalent.

The aforementioned inhumane behaviors — to be excluded from any activities, affairs, or arrangements of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation — include, but are not limited to, the following:

Broadcasting and Exhibition
the broadcasting, dissemination, exhibition, and transmission of the Founder and the Founder’s activities, affairs, movements, properties, speech, thought, work, and life
Care, Education, Training
the unconsented care, education, and training of, on and with the Founder
Communication and Meeting
the unconsented communication and meeting about, to and with the Founder
Experimentation and Research
the experimentation and research of, on and with the Founder
Harassment, Pervasive and Persistent
the pervasive and persistent harassment of the Founder
Interference and Intrusion
the interference with, intrusion into, as well as frustration and hinderance of the Founder and the Founder’s activities, affairs, movements, properties, speech, thought, work, and life
Monitoring and Recording
the monitoring, recording, and reporting of the Founder and the Founder’s activities, affairs, movements, properties, speech, thought, work, and life
Prediction and Timing
the prediction and timing of the Founder and the Founder’s activities, affairs, movements, properties, speech, thought, work, and life
Stalking and Surveillance
the following, stalking, surveillance, and tracking of the Founder and the Founder’s activities, affairs, movements, properties, speech, thought, work, and life
Training and Work
the unconsented training and work of, on and with the Founder
Denial of Consent, Due Process and Liberty
the denial, infringement, and violation of the Founder’s rights to consent, rights to due process, and rights to liberty
Denial of Confidentiality
with respect to both The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation and the Founder, the denial, infringement, and violation of confidentiality and of rights to the degree, level, protection, and quality of confidentiality provided to other equivalent entities and persons
Denial of Privacy
with respect to both The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation and the Founder, the denial, infringement, and violation of privacy and of rights to the degree, level, protection, and quality of privacy provided to other equivalent entities and persons
Denial of Private Work
with respect to both The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation and the Founder, the denial, infringement, and violation of private labor and work and of rights to private, uncoerced and unindentured labor and work, including the discriminatory and false insistence that such work of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation and the Founder are public or communal, are under public or communal control, management, or supervision, and belong to the public or any collective or community
Denial of Private Property
with respect to both The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation and the Founder, the denial, infringement, and violation of private property (real and intellectual) and of rights to private property (real and intellectual), including the discriminatory and false insistence that such properties of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation and the Founder are public or communal, are under public or communal control, management, or supervision, and belong to the public or any collective or community
Denial of Private Control
with respect to both The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation and the Founder, the denial, infringement, and violation of rights to private control of property (real and intellectual), of labor and work, of development and employment of ideas and their applications, and of the results of the aforementioned, with such denial including engaging in, facilitating, and otherwise fostering counterfeiting, fraud, hacking, identity theft, piracy, trespassing, and equivalently confusing, fraudulent and transgressive activities; such behaviors entailing presenting to other persons alternative versions of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation (including their series, divisions, subsidiaries, and affiliates as well as their goods, products, services, sites, and other offerings) as entities executively administered, governed, managed, operated and otherwise owned or supervised by any person other than Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, the sole Founder, President and Chair of The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation, and also construing or suggesting other persons, beyond Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, to have or deserve executive control, decision-making, governance, policy-making, rules-making and any other executive administrative, management, operations, supervision or ownership powers or rights pertaining to The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation
Denial of Private Life
the denial, infringement, and violation of the Founder’s basic and human right to a private life, including to any private emotion, feeling, idea, moment, or thought
Denial of Freedom of Thought
theĀ denial, infringement, and violation of the Founder’s basic and human right to freedom of thought, including to thinking freely, with absolute confidentiality and privacy, without detection or dissemination, even when thinking aloud by, to or with oneself
Denial of Autonomy, Dignity and Humanity
theĀ denial, infringement, and violation of the Founder’s basic rights to enjoy the degree, level, and quality of autonomy, dignity, humanity, and humanness provided other equivalent persons, including citizens and residents of California, Delaware, the United States, and member states of the United Nations
Dissemination and Withholding of Information
theĀ withholding of basic, fundamental and necessary access and information from the Founder regarding the above and The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation — a withholding deriving in part from discriminatory application and interpretation of the Codes and Policies, of constitutional and legal rights, and of ethical policy and theory — and thus the denial of equal opportunity to understand one’s circumstances needed as a basis for consent, decision-making, and seeking, obtaining, and safeguarding basic, civil, fundamental and human rights; such withholding of access and information occurred and was sustained while providing other persons, including those in academia, business, government, and the general public, a surfeit of access and information regarding the Founder and The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation, resulting in profound violations of the Founder’s autonomy, confidentiality, dignity, freedom, liberty, privacy, property, rights, sanctity, and therefore, humanity
Coordination, Targeting, Sporting
coordinated behaviors that target and direct the betting, chasing, competing, gaming, hunting, sporting, toying, and voting of, on and with the Founder and the Founder’s activities, affairs, movements, properties, speech, thought, work, and life
Coordination, Targeting, Retaliation
coordinated behaviors that target and direct retaliation, scapegoating, and vigilante action against the Founder and the Founder’s activities, affairs, movements, properties, speech, thought, work, and life
Coordination, Targeting, Meaningfulness
coordinated behaviors that target the Founder and the Founder’s activities, affairs, movements, properties, speech, thought, work, and life to such degree and manner as to deny meaningful consent, decision-making, and volition for the Founder, meaningful confidentiality and meaningful expectation of confidentiality for the Founder, and meaningful privacy and meaningful expectation of privacy for the Founder
Coordination, Targeting, Conditions
coordinated behaviors that target and impose the aforementioned behaviors as conditions of life, service, support, and work for the Founder and The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation, including where they are not conditions for other equivalent entities and persons
Discrimination Based on Difference
and the reliance on notions of human and perceived difference (including those pertaining to birth and citizenship, culture, ethnicity, gender, race, and sex) in continuing the aforementioned harassment, targeting, and ultimately discrimination.

And as a result, a further point of focus and incompatibility entails a set of basic refusals:

Refusal of Aforementioned Behaviors
that The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation and the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, do not and shall not, in any way or under any circumstances, agree, consent, or otherwise give license or permission to or for any of the aforementioned behaviors, via any activity, in any manner or way, via any means or method, and for any benefit, end, goal, interest, mission, need, objective, purpose, reason, or equivalent
Refusal of Access to Person of Founder
that The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation and the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, do not and shall not, in any way or under any circumstances, agree, consent, or otherwise give license or permission to have any aspect of the Founder’s person — especially activities or functions of the body and mind such as cognizing, perceiving, or thinking, and also thinking aloud by, to or with oneself — accessed, disseminated, monitored or otherwise engaged or transmitted via any activity, in any manner or way, via any means or method, and for any benefit, end, goal, interest, mission, need, objective, purpose, reason, or equivalent
Refusal of Access to Affairs of Founder
that The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation and the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, do not and shall not, in any way or under any circumstances, agree, consent, or otherwise give license or permission to have any activities, affairs, areas, assets, offices, parts, properties, sections, or equivalent of either The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation or the Founder accessed, disseminated, monitored or otherwise engaged or transmitted via any activity, in any manner or way and via any means or method such that the Founder’s person, or any natural person, becomes a means or medium for any benefit, end, goal, interest, mission, need, objective, purpose, reason, or equivalent
Refusals as Principle
that these basic refusals and their principle — at once human and humane — shall, wherever there is conflict or question, legally override and supersede any conflicting provision or interpretation of any alleged, assumed, interpreted, presumed or otherwise made or understood agreement, code, consent, contract, law, license, permission, policy, principle, regulation, right, term, or equivalent. The Founder shall, at the very least, enjoy the highest level of this principle and its protections that The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation, the Codes and Polices, and applicable law and regulation provide

Actor in Macbeth Costume
Macbeth, Undated (New York Public Library)
Schoolgirl in Uniform at Doorway Looking Above
In Uniform, Liberia, March 2019 (Adrianna Van Groningen)
Girl Kneeling in Busy Street
Tibetan Girl, 2017 (Journey Yang)

Form

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The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation’s organizational form is as delineated below:

Formation

The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation are formally organized as tax-exempt nonprofit organizations, as provided for in the laws of the State of California, the United States, and are registered and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Names

The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation and The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Foundation are also officially known under the business names, The Ikoku Foundations and The Ikoku Foundation. Both sets of names, as used in official Ikoku Foundations documents, products, services, and sites, collectively refer to the same aforementioned nonprofit entities.

Entities

As provided for by law and the Founder’s Declaration of Trust, The Ikoku Charitable Trusts administer, hold, and manage the assets for two private charitable foundations, resulting in a three-entity structure that includes the following:

Efforts

The Ikoku Charitable Trusts, via their work with The Ikoku Foundations and through the Trusts Areas, are thus structured to conduct and support charitable efforts in the aforementioned areas, and to ultimately fulfill their originating mission to promote philanthropy concerned with Africa, its global diasporas, and shared societies As always, the objective is the betterment of lives and societies.

Concluding

And as concluding aviso and proviso, you are informed as well as reminded that by conducting any you accept and agree to the conditions, principles, protections, requirements, standards, statements, and terms described The Ikoku Foundations, any activities, affairs, areas, assets, offices, parts, properties, sections, or equivalent of The Ikoku Foundations, any activities, affairs, areas, assets, offices, parts, properties, sections, or equivalent of the divisions, series, subsidiaries, or affiliates of The Ikoku Foundations, as well as any activities, affairs, areas, assets, offices, parts, properties, sections, or equivalent of the Products or Services of The Ikoku Foundations, you accept and agree to the conditions, principles, protections, requirements, standards, statements, and terms described above and in the Codes and Policies, regarding the Founding and Governance of The Ikoku Foundations, in their entirety without modification, including as updated from time to time by the Founder, and you further accept and agree to fully inform the Founder in writing of any knowledge you have regarding the aforementioned discriminatory, inhumane and related activities, including their coordination, effect, and history.

Woman Bending Down to Tend Crops
Sierra Leone, 2017 (Annie Spratt)
Child in Costume Looking at Camera
NiƱo, Cusco, Peru, 2018 (Ben Ostrower)
Woman Seated on Mat on Floor, Holding Fan
Seated by Kpone Katamanso District Assembly Office, Tema, Ghana, 2017 (Nathaniel Tetteh)
People Holding Peace Banner and Respect Sign
Women's March, Boston, USA, 2017, (Alice Donovan Rouse)

Also at the Foundations

As stated earlier, The Ikoku Foundations are dedicated to fostering philanthropy and good works concerning Africa, its global diasporas and a range of shared societies — toward the betterment of lives across the globe. And so in accordance with the above, The Foundations provide the following:

I.

Nonprofits Dedicated to Africa

Independent, private, non-profit organizations that serve the public interest in Africa and its global diasporas — by advancing education and research and by also supporting creative ideas, civic endeavors and emerging communities, organizations and societies.

II.

Support for a Global and Just Future

A founding mission and ongoing emphases of support for good works that help the public understand Africa’s essential place in a global future, one that is to be more knowledgeable, environmentally sustainable, equitable and of benefit across communities in just societies.

III.

A Vision of the Public Good

A vision of the public good that accounts for the past while ensuring a just and shared future. That draws inspiration from peoples who, despite a history of systemic difficulties, maintain an unyielding belief that the betterment of their human condition will foster the betterment of those living around them and will enhance the present and futures of the regularly disenfranchised, marginalized and underserved.

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