WIACT works with diverse tribes and ethnic groups in communities across Savannah Region to overcome the slow disasters that started with the colonial era.  Colonials and missionaries replaced:

• our languages with English
• our unity among our traditional areas and tribes
• our traditional governance
• our customary land tenure arrangements
• principles of reciprocity in our interactions with other species in the natural environment, and
• our traditional spiritual understandings with religions of Europe & the Middle East.

We believe that African cultural traditions and knowledge are valuable--they sustained our people through millennia and enabled us to survive comfortably with others, including other species and waters in our local biomes. Our cultures offer important ideas to address global disasters across the globe, including how to live sustainably with others in communities of place. We understand that relationships and diverse knowledges are critical.

Therefore, our vision is to make a new, appreciative story of Africa that retains ancestral connections--an African renaissance.