We live in an age of institutional failure, algorithmic harm, ecological crisis and collapsing public trust. We keep reaching for new solutions and finding that the new solutions have the same old problems. What if the most useful thinking on these questions is not ahead of us but behind us, and not where we have been looking? This talk takes audiences into civilisational traditions that most of us were never taught existed. The Kemetic concept of Ma'at, a framework of cosmic balance, accountability and consequence that predates Greek philosophy by two thousand years. The Yoruba Ifa system, whose mathematical architecture is structurally identical to the binary logic underlying modern computing. The West African empire of Wagadu, whose priests engineered a distributed memory system sophisticated enough to outlast repeated civilisational collapse. The Per Ankh network of Houses of Life, an institutional knowledge architecture so robust that no single invasion, flood or catastrophe could end it. These are not myths in the dismissive sense. They are working models, built by civilisations that understood something about justice, consequence, ecological reciprocity and institutional memory that the modern world has not yet had the wit to properly examine. Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi draws on her published work in African mythology, her research at the Afrodeities Institute and 25 years of systems thinking inside complex organisations to make these ideas genuinely accessible, surprising and impossible to forget. Audiences leave with a different map of human intellectual history, a new set of questions about the systems they inhabit, and consistently, a strong desire to keep talking long after the formal session ends. SUITABLE FOR: History societies, book clubs, arts and culture organisations, faith communities, corporate away days, universities and colleges, festivals of ideas, Black History Month programming. LENGTH: 45 to 90 minutes with question and answer session.