Mission
To document, source and open up Chad’s cultural heritage to everyone, together with the communities who keep it alive.
About · Tchad Ma Culture
Chad’s heritage deserves an archive equal to it.
Tchad Ma Culture documents the country’s peoples, languages, festivals and crafts, with verifiable sources, in 13 languages.
Vision
A trusted, living reference on Chadian culture, where anyone can find their history, read it in a language they understand and add their own voice.
Why Tchad Ma Culture
The problem
Chad’s culture is remarkably diverse, but what is known about it is scattered: hard-to-reach scholarship, reports, archives and, above all, oral memory. Online, it remains thinly and unevenly documented. Much of this knowledge passes from voice to voice; unrecorded, it can vanish with the people who carry it.
Our answer
Tchad Ma Culture brings these fragments together in one place: sourced, correctable records, open to cultural review, enriched by the stories, photos and recordings that communities choose to share.
Our commitments
Sourced and honest
Every record cites its sources. Disputed facts are flagged; gaps stay visible, and nothing is invented to fill them.
Consent and community
A story, photo or recording is published only with its author’s consent and under the licence they choose. Every collection has a cultural review seat.
Multilingual and open
The archive is free, published in 13 languages — Arabic right to left — and its corrections are made public.
Accessible everywhere
Light pages and compressed images loaded on demand: the archive works on a phone, even on a slow connection.
The archive in figures
Figures computed from the records published on the site; they change with every publication.
Who we are
Tchad Ma Culture is an independent cultural archive, founded and led by Florent Mando Yves. Its governance rests on six published roles: a vacant role is shown as vacant, and a name appears only after written confirmation. The project is not yet registered as an association.
Keep the archive alive
Explore the collections, share what you know, or support the documentation work.