NAME IT FIRST

Journal

My Nigerian Family Stories

Documenting the Names, Places, Stories, and Wisdom of the People Who Made You

The people who made you knew things you have not fully asked about yet.

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For the Someone from a Nigerian family who wants to document names, places, stories, and wisdom of the people who came before them.

You'll produce:your Your Nigerian Family Record

The Name It First Experience

Nigerian families carry histories that span generations — ethnic traditions, family stories, names of villages and ancestors, and the particular way things have been done for as long as anyone can remember. Much of this history is held by people, not preserved in documents. This journal is built to change that. My Nigerian Family Stories gives you the prompts to record what your family knows — the names, the places, the stories, the wisdom — before time takes it.

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Sample questions

  1. What name in your Nigerian family do you most want to document — and what do you know about the person who carried it?
  2. What story, proverb, or piece of wisdom has been passed down in your family that belongs in writing?
  3. What place — village, city, state — does your family come from that the next generation should know?

Research basis

Vansina (oral tradition) / Achebe (cultural narrative preservation) / Nigerian family systems and storytelling research

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Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.

Print Paperbackpersonalize

A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.

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The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.

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Audiobook

We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.

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The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.

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Digital Fill + membership+membership

Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.

$7.99

Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership

Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.

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Choose your pace.

The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.

Essential path

Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.

Full depth

Every question. Every scenario, every angle.

Paper doesn’t change its mind.

Thoughts change. Documents don’t. The answers you write are there when you return — unchanged by memory or mood.

You won’t just feel clearer — you’ll have written proof of what you decided.

Writing is the mechanism by which internal clarity becomes external evidence. Evidence you can return to, share, and hold someone — including yourself — accountable to.

Every question is answerable by everyone.

Every question in every title is answerable by the person for whom the assumed experience is true and by the person for whom it is not. No reader is excluded by how a question is built.

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