The Nefertiti Project · Accra, Ghana

An ecosystem for how Africa learns and works.

The Nefertiti Project is an ecosystem of initiatives advancing 21st-century teaching and learning, workforce readiness, and ethical professional standards — with active work across Africa and global engagement.

Three institutes One ecosystem, one mission
Pan-African Active work across Africa, global engagement

Its work runs through three connected initiatives — each with its own focus, each part of a single thread.

They share a founder, a home, and a conviction that the continent should own the systems that shape its people. Each operates under its own name, with its own site and programs. Together, they form The Nefertiti Project.

The Thesis

Advancing quality education, ethical leadership, and workforce readiness across Africa.

Thinking, not Reciting

Critical thinking and problem-solving as the core of every classroom, lecture hall, and training centre.

Integrity that holds

Honesty, ethics, and professional competence taught as practical, everyday tools — not abstractions.

Ready for real work

Graduates equipped for the roles the modern, green economy needs — to international standard.

Three initiatives, one ecosystem

The work, on a single thread.

Educator development Adesua — learning

Institute for Advanced Teaching & Learning

IATL assesses, develops, and promotes learner-centred, 21st-century teaching techniques, curricula, and approaches across Sub-Saharan Africa.

A ten-year goal: end rote learning across the ECOWAS region. Visit IATL
An IATL innovation · EdTech platform

LectureSoft

An AI-driven, cloud-based platform for teacher professional development, built to deliver scalable, high-impact training to educators across diverse contexts — regardless of budget or background.

Ethics & integrity Nokware — truth

The J. B. Short Institute for Ethics

JBSIE makes the case — to every Ghanaian, in every national language — that honesty, ethics, and professional competence carry real, practical weight in daily life and work. It serves as a national hub for ethics curriculum, certification, training, and leadership.

A ten-year goal: mandate applied ethics training in Ghanaian educational institutions, from kindergarten to tertiary. Visit JBSIE
Graduate employability Adwuma — work

The JobReady Institute

JobReady works with colleges and certification programs to align curricula with 21st-century employer needs, and delivers targeted programs equipping unemployed and underemployed graduates with in-demand, job-specific skills — world-class competencies for Sub-Saharan Africa.

A JobReady initiative · Innovation space Nyansa — wisdom

Nyansa Tech Hub

An innovation space preparing the next generation for tech-powered, environmentally-conscious careers — training, mentoring, and connecting future tech professionals, digitally fluent educators, and green innovators. Resident partners like Kidtronic, bringing K–12 robotics, coding, STEM, and AI programs to younger learners. Housed at Nyansa Square, Bathur Street, East Legon, Accra.

Where it happens

Nyansa Square.

The physical home of The Nefertiti Project, on Bathur Street in East Legon, Accra. The spaces where cohorts learn, partners convene, and the work gets done — all under one roof.

  • Adesua Training Room & STEM Lab
  • Conference Room
  • Nokware Event Hall
  • Bathur St. Gardens
Adesua Training Room, Nyansa Square
Founder

Dr. Nefertiti A. Puplampu.

The Nefertiti Project is the work of Dr. Nefertiti A. Puplampu — a speaker, writer, systems innovator, and social strategist working at the intersection of education, workforce development, ethics, and cultural transformation.

Her work increasingly focuses on how African education systems can respond to major shifts in technology, labour, and society — particularly in AI, 21st-century education, green technology, employability, and ethical leadership.

B.S., Operations Management Technology B.A., Organisational Management M.Ed., Curriculum & Instruction · Instructional Technology Ph.D., Instructional Systems & Learning Technologies Certified, Web Design Certified, Project Management Lecturer & International Consultant 20+ years teaching & faculty development
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