Wisdom

5,000 years of African wisdom in one MCP.

Thinkers, writers, fighters, artists — from ancient oral traditions to contemporary theory. Embeddable in any tool or workflow.

Add Wisdom to Claude Desktop in one step

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  "mcpServers": {
    "wisdom": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "wisdom-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible tool.

Past · Present · Future

Intelligence without time is just data.
Wisdom knows where something came from, where it stands, and where it's going.

The three tools aren't separate features — they're a single temporal system. The past gives you the foundation. The present gives you the reality. The future gives you the direction. Put them together, and you don't have information about Africa. You have wisdom about it.

PastThe Archive

The intellectual and cultural foundation

Novels, poems, essays, manifestos, speeches, oral traditions, theory, memoir — spanning every region and era, from pre-colonial oral tradition to contemporary Afrofuturism. The written record of how Africa has understood itself over centuries. This is where wisdom begins: in knowing what was thought before.

Things Fall Apart

1958

Chinua Achebe

West AfricaFiction

Season of Migration to the North

1966

Tayeb Salih

North AfricaFiction

Song of Lawino

1966

Okot p'Bitek

East AfricaPoetry

Breath, Eyes, Memory

1994

Edwidge Danticat

CaribbeanFiction
A Prosperous Africa
On Track
An Integrated Continent
At Risk
Good Governance
At Risk
A Peaceful Africa
Behind
Strong Cultural Identity
On Track
People-Driven Development
At Risk
Africa as a Global Player
On Track
PresentThe Dashboard

Where Africa stands today

The African Union's Agenda 2063 is a fifty-year development blueprint tracking prosperity, governance, peace, and identity across all 55 member states. Wisdom surfaces that data as a live, queryable layer — not a PDF report. Because understanding the present is what connects the intellectual inheritance of the past to a credible vision of the future.

FutureThe Forecast

Where Africa is headed

Trend projections on the same Agenda 2063 indicators — infrastructure, economic convergence, education, health — so that questions about Africa's direction are answered with data, not opinion. The thinkers in the archive imagined this future. The dashboard shows where it stands. The forecast shows whether the trajectory matches the vision.

Progress toward 2063 targets
Poverty Reduction34%
Education Access51%
Gender Equality28%
Renewable Energy19%

Projections from published AU trend data · Not live feeds

How we know what we know

The numbers aren't AU's. They're independently verifiable.

African Union biennial reports are self-reported by member states and widely read as politically optimistic — one goal jumped 12% → 98% in two years in their 2022 report. Wisdom rebuilds the same scoring from independent public sources: the World Bank, WHO, UNESCO, Mo Ibrahim IIAG, UN Population Division, IPCC, and ISS African Futures.

Every number cites its source
Click any indicator on the dashboard and you'll see exactly which World Bank code or WHO dataset it came from. We don't blend providers within a single number.
Refreshed weekly, not biennially
A GitHub Action pulls fresh data from the source APIs every Sunday and commits it back to the repo. AU publishes once every two years in PDFs — we publish a diff every week.
Methodology is public
Every formula, every coverage gap, every disagreement with AU's numbers is published on our audit page. We use population-weighted continental aggregates (matching WB/WHO methodology), not naïve country means.
Data flow
Sources
World Bank · WHO · UNESCO · IIAG · UN · ISS
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Ingest
Weekly cron · GitHub Actions
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Storage
Versioned JSON · committed to git
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Aggregate
Population-weighted · clamped · null-safe
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Render
Next.js · server-side · zero API calls at request time
Get Wisdom

One conversation across all three

Ask the AI librarian anything — reading recommendations, context on an author, what the archive says about a moment in African history, or how a literary theme connects to what the development data shows today.

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Recommend 3 works on decolonization from East Africa

Here are three essential works:

1. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o — Decolonising the Mind (1986)

2. Frantz Fanon — The Wretched of the Earth (1961)

3. Okot p'Bitek — Song of Lawino (1966)