oyesina/afrolineo-vault

Sovereign African oral genealogy platform. Afrolineo Vault reconstructs ancestral lineage using oral storytel # 🌍 Afrolineo Vault — African Oral Genealogy Mapping & Kinship Springboard Traditional Western genealogy frameworks depend almost entirely on comprehensive written registries, censuses, and public birth certificates. In the African continent and diaspora, these structured databases represent a **"Data Desert."** Heritage, lineage, and legacy are historically sustained instead through **Oral Tradition, Storytelling, and Local Elders**. **Afrolineo Vault** reverses this status-quo by placing oral history as the focal, primary record. Individual family branches gain structure not through static dates, but through audio recitations of migrations, clan compounds, and ancestral wisdom. --- ## 📖 Table of Contents 1. 🎯 The Problem Statement 2. ✊ The Mission Statement 3. ✨ Interactive Key Features 4. 🗺️ Unified System Architecture 5. 📁 Folder Layout & File Tree 6. 🛠️ Technical Specifications & Stack 7. 💾 Relational Data Schema 8. 🎙️ Speech-to-Text & Story Synthesis Pipeline 9. ⚙️ Local Installation & Development Guide 10. 🛡️ Sovereign Archive & Data Security --- ## 🎯 The Problem Statement Traditional genealogical platforms and databases are systematically biased toward written historical records—census sheets, parish books, birth certificates, and physical registries. This presents four severe systemic challenges for African and Diaspora lineage preservation: 1. **The "Data Desert" of Written Records**: Due to historical displacement, colonial gaps, and administrative omission, sub-Saharan African and Diaspora ancestral records are frequently absent from Western written historical registries. Traditional genealogy portals return empty queries, leading families to frustrating dead-ends. 2. **Acoustic and Oral Erasure**: African heritage has historically been maintained through **oral tradition, meter, praise-chants (such as Oríkì), and generational storytelling**. Standard genealogical software completely lacks the data structure or visual layout to treat raw …