The Global Village for Afrovisionaries
Welcome to a world where personal mastery meets purpose, and culture meets collective possibility
Ijeruka is the developmental ecosystem for ambitious black professionals who are shaping the future with intention. Here you will find ground-breaking, research-backed learning experiences, expert coaching, and an extraordinary global community to help you flourish, personally and professionally.
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Expand your capacity to hold the life and impact you're reaching for.
LEARNING JOURNEYS
Learning journeys are in-depth, multi-session experiences designed to support specific long-term growth arcs. They are for moments when your life, work, or leadership is evolving and you need the time, structure, and depth to grow alongside it.
workshops & events
Workshops and events are shorter-form learning spaces focused on developing or applying specific capacities. They also include conversations renowned minds who are shaping industries and shifting culture.
Vetted community
Membership is the heart of Ijeruka's ecosystem. It is the strategic and holistic growth system for black leaders who want continuous support, breakthrough insight and a generous community to rise to their highest calling.
The library
The Library is a curated collection of resources, recordings, and reflections that support ongoing learning and integration. It’s where villagers return to deepen understanding and revisit ideas between live experiences.
Thinking Like an Ancestor
Thinking Like an Ancestor is a six-day experiential retreat in Salvador, Brazil, for people who want to live with greater care for what they inherit, what they interrupt, and what they leave behind.
Building Creative Will Workshop
Building Creative Will is a live online workshop to strengthen decision-making and internal authority during transitions. This workshop will help you meet pivotal personal and professional moments with clarity, recognised agency, and creative authority.
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Dilemma Lab: Navigating Unvalidated Paths
Uncharted Work is a small-group lab for entrepreneurs, practitioners and creators building without clear external validation. If you are working on something that doesn’t fit the usual templates, this session offers a facilitated space to navigate working with uncertainty, legitimacy, and choice-making without losing clarity, coherence and self-trust.
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Design Your Personal Curriculum Workbook
A reflective workbook designed to support you in shaping a year of growth that is aligned and developmentally meaningful.
Ijeruka 2026 Programme Guide
A clear overview of what to expect from our learning community over the course of this year.
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The Ijeruka Space and platform felt like coming home. The sessions were well organised, the online platform was very interactive, and they provided multiple modes of learning.
It’s been a long while since I’ve joyfully anticipated showing up for collective study, eager to listen and reflect with others. Each session felt like a communal gathering, which takes skill and trusted intuition to facilitate through virtual spaces. I’m continually grateful for the many resources, questions and frameworks woven throughout that I know I will return to again and again.
The best part of the Ijeruka for me was being in community with people across the Diaspora, hearing their perspectives, and understanding our shared and stratified histories. I will always carry this particular experience with me.
Anwulika and Gabby were excellent facilitators, and brought so much space and life to the exploratory discourse. I enjoyed and learned so much from every rockstar presenter, and everyone's contributions to the resources that underpin their work.
The organisation, as well as the speakers that were invited were varied, interesting and enlightening in thematic scope. For me, the course opened up a new world of ways of living, doing, and understanding that is so necessary for these transition times we live in. Thank you so much, Anwulika, and your team.
I wish this existed years ago! I feel so happy for the younger black generation. I really do!
The course was perfectly tailored and the often interactive teaching framework was great. The teachers were incredibly well versed in their subjects and a joy to engage with and learn from. This course literally changed the trajectory of my life in terms of how I plan to approach projects and relate to my immediate environment. I now have a list of books and resources that’ll take me a while to get through but I couldn’t be happier. Thank you so much for creating this very much needed platform. It is a blessing.
I am grateful for the gifts of knowledge, conversation and connection I now have from the time I dedicated to this brilliant course. Thank you to my fellow participants and major gratitude to Anwulika Okonjo for creating this space.
I highly encourage anyone curious about what Ijeruka has to offer and I promise you will not regret it! There was a great deal of engagement among like-minded individuals from different backgrounds. It was a wonderful experience to learn together, reminisce together and be awestruck by the lessons.
I cannot recommend Ijeruka highly enough! From the incredibly accomplished and knowledgeable speakers to the capacity of the facilitators to create the right environment for discussion, Ijeruka met all of my expectations. I could totally do it all over again!
Through Ijeruka I was able to challenge myself into new ways of thinking that have been very useful for the navigating some of the challenges in my professional life.
Thank you so much for a beautiful course! I was able to enrich my learning and appreciated that we heard from people based across the globe. I look forward to more courses in the future.
Ijeruka has been a joy. I came to the course seeking purposeful alignment in my work, and an alternative path to fulfillment that is not trauma-based. Through Ijeruka, I had the experience to visit different timelines, imagine and discuss alternative futures, and deepen my appreciation for Diasporic intellect, community and consciousness. I would recommend Ijeruka to anyone who is seeking futures where they exist in wholeness.
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Commonly Asked Questions
How is Ijeruka different from other leadership or personal development platforms?
Ijeruka is a learning ecosystem for people who care about their inner growth and outward impact. We don’t focus on surface-level skills or motivational content. We focus on who you are becoming, how you make meaning, and the highest impact skills and mindsets, because that determines how you lead, build, relate and shape the future.
What makes Ijeruka different is that we work holistically and developmentally. We integrate evidence-based research on adult (vertical) development, leadership, and systems change with a rigorous attentiveness to African and Afro-diasporic contexts and traditions.
Who is Ijeruka for, and who is it not for?
Ijeruka is for African and Afro-diasporic professionals who are actively growing into their next level—personally, professionally, or both—and want to expand their capacity to hold the life and impact they’re building toward.
Our participants are usually already capable, driven, and in motion. What brings them to Ijeruka is the sense that their outer responsibilities, ambitions and influence now requires inward expansion to be elevated or sustained: e.g. clearer internal authority, stronger coherence, cultural confidence and better decision-making under complexity.
If you’re looking for quick fixes or credentials without inner work, this won’t be the right place. If you’re ready to engage meaningfully with yourself, others and the world, you’ll feel at home.
How do programmes and learning experiences work? What level of commitment is expected?
Our offerings range from self-paced, short-form learning and live conversations to multi-session programmes, retreats, and longer developmental journeys.
You can expect a mix of frameworks, guided inquiry, and practical application. This is not “watch and forget” content. The value comes from engaging with the material and, where relevant, with other participants.
Time commitments are always stated clearly upfront. We design experiences to be deep enough to be effective, but realistic for people with full lives and responsibilities.
Do I need to be a member to participate in Ijeruka programmes?
Some experiences will be open to the public, while others will be reserved for members or offered first to our community. Membership is designed for people who want ongoing access to learning, dialogue, and a values-aligned peer village.
Becoming a member signals a deeper level of commitment to your own development and to being in community with others on a similar path. Membership details, benefits, and pricing will always be transparent before you’re asked to join.
You can engage with Ijeruka without becoming a member, but membership is where the full ecosystem comes alive.
How do you handle safety, confidentiality, and trust in group spaces?
Psychological and cultural safety are non-negotiable for us. While Ijeruka is not a therapeutic service, our spaces often involve honest reflection and meaningful personal insight. We set clear community agreements around confidentiality, respect, and responsible participation. What’s shared in closed sessions stays in the room unless explicit permission is given. We curate group experiences intentionally and design them to support depth without exposure for its own sake.
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