Role
Developer & Product Lead | Archivi.ng Project
Skills
Overview
80–25 is a digital archival initiative tracking and visualising 45 years of insecurity in Northern Nigeria, from the Maitatsine uprisings of the 1980s to ongoing banditry and kidnappings. The project combines an interactive incident explorer, a scrollytelling narrative, and a geographic map, all powered by a single curated dataset.
Why was it built?
Northern Nigeria has experienced repeated cycles of insurgency, banditry, and communal violence for over four decades. Documentation of these events sits fragmented across news archives, NGO reports, and academic papers. 80–25 was built to consolidate that record into a single, navigable dataset and make it legible to researchers, journalists, and the public.
Product architecture
The entire site is powered by a single JSON file. Every view, including the Explorer grid, the geographic map, the scrollytelling narrative, and the home timeline, reads from the same source. This means data updates propagate everywhere automatically with no duplication.
- Explorer: a conversation-driven interface where users specify filters (decade, incident type, state) and get back a tiled grid of matching incidents. Clicking a tile opens a detail panel.
- Narrative: a scrollytelling page with an animated dot canvas that reacts to the reader's scroll position, plus a data-driven comparison table across the three major conflict eras.
- Map: a geographic view plotting all incidents by state.
Results
- 1,000+ incidents documented across 45 years.
- Three interconnected views (Explorer, Narrative, Map) from a single data source.
- Covers Maitatsine, Boko Haram, farmer-herder conflict, banditry, and kidnapping.