The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC was established in January 2019 by its sole Founder, Original Member, President and Chair, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku — as one part of ongoing work he has carried out for over two decades, leading also to his founding of Publiks Inc, The Ikoku Charitable Trusts and The Ikoku Foundations. Where appropriate and approved by the Founder, these entities endeavor to coordinate their efforts and resultant benefit to the communities they serve.

The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC is formally organized as a series limited liability company, as provided for in the Delaware State Code of the United States, and it is registered and headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. The Group is also officially known under the business names, The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku Group and The Ikoku Group. All three names, as used in official Ikoku Group documents, products, services, and sites, refer to the same aforementioned company entity.

As provided for under law for series limited liability companies, The Ikoku Group uses its series as a primary means to structure its assets, interests and operations. A portion of The Ikoku Group interests, series and shares-equivalents are dedicated to the structuring of its assets, operations, products, services and sites into the five (5) divisions and eight (8) areas of focus described in the main Areas and Divisions page.

The five divisions are as follows:

1. Ikoku Corporation;
2. Ikoku Holdings;
3. Ikoku Services;
4. Ikoku Philanthropies; and
5. Publiks Group.

As further described in Areas and Divisions, the divisions of The Ikoku Group develop, provide and safeguard holdings, products, services and sites in the eight (8) areas below:

1. Care | Health | Sciences;
2. Culture Communities;
3. Design | Development;
4. Ethics | Rights;
5. Education | Information;
6. Research | Inquiry;
7. Real | Intellectual Property; and
8. Solutions | Technologies.

The Ikoku Group, via its divisions, is thus structured to carry out efforts in the aforementioned areas, and to ultimately fulfill its originating mission to foster care and creativity, ethics and innovation in work and communities of enduring concern to its Founder and Partners. As always, the objective is the improvement of lives and the betterment of societies.

The Ikoku Group is led and managed by its sole Founder and Owner, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, who serves as its President and CEO. The following are further details concerning governance of The Group.

Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku is the sole interests-holder, shareholder and director of The Ikoku Group and its divisions, series and subsidiaries, and as such is the only person empowered to authorize The Ikoku Group to engage in or enter into a specified activity or arrangement.

Such authorization by the above Founder may proceed only via express written and signed instrument. No other activity in The Ikoku Group, its divisions, series, subsidiaries, and affiliates, or their Sites, Products and Services may take the place of such authorization, nor may any other such activity be taken as indication of donor preference, authorized transfer of charitable funds, or permission for any specific nonprofit activity on the part of The Ikoku Group, its President, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, or The Ikoku Charitable Trusts or The Ikoku Foundations.

Any further announcements and details of the leadership and management of The Ikoku Group shall be provided here upon completion of searches and appointments by the Founder.

Any further announcements and details of partners within and partnerships with The Ikoku Group shall be provided here upon completion of agreements and appointments by the Founder.

The development of The Ikoku Group is governed by its sole Founder and Owner, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, as well as a set of attendant mission-related core purposes derived from a history of company establishment further described below:

During a period preceding and extending into the formation of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC, the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, was subject to a set of consistent, extensive, pervasive, dehumanizing and subhumanizing practices — including but not limited to discrimination, harassment, stalking, and unconsented communication, experimentation, monitoring, and spying — that entailed profound violations of the Founder’s basic, fundamental and natural freedoms, liberties and rights, confidentiality and privacy rights, and fundamental autonomy, dignity and humanity accorded and provided to citizens and residents of California, Delaware, the United States, and member states of the United Nations.

In response to the above, the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, established and shall further develop The Ikoku Group with the core, express and founding purpose to create, develop, and support communities, institutions, and societies where the above and related practices do not occur and to help other communities, institutions, and societies reduce the occurrence and prevalence of the above and related practices.

Such core, express and founding purpose shall also be in response to apparent, historical and sustained failures and limitations of established, present-day and prevailing civics, commerce, education, politics, public debate and religion to provide a meaningful moral and ethical basis for ensuring the care, equanimity, recognition, respect, sanctity, sovereignty and spiritual or theological wholeness of human beings in contemporary society. And thus The Ikoku Group shall also advance, develop, practice as well as teach and offer to others a contemporary humanism as defined and interpreted by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku — namely, the moral ethics, principles, and tenets of humanity, humanness, human autonomy and dignity, human recognition and reciprocity, human equality in basic, fundamental and natural freedoms, liberties and rights, and thus human equanimity and humane co-existence, each of which shall be grounded in the study of, inquiry into, revelation in, and elucidation from comparative human disciplines and societies, particularly comparative ecumenism, religion, spirituality and theology, the arts, the humanities, the human sciences, theory and the application of knowledge as practice in civics, culture, law, medicine, politics, and technology.

As part of the core, express and founding purposes described above, the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, shall also further develop The Ikoku Group in view of the Founder’s birth into, formation within and further development of a multigenerational, longstanding family commitment to lifelong education and research; as well as in direct response to past, present-day and ongoing infringements of basic, fundamental and natural freedoms, liberties and rights, including the disenfranchisement, forced migration, impoverishment, marginalization, stigmatization, underrepresentation, unethical care and research, and violations of due process, liberty and privacy rights, of varying peoples in Africa, its global diasporas, and culturally and structurally connected societies. The Ikoku Group shall thus have an attendant founding purpose to promote public awareness of, enhance public knowledge of and engage in commerce in and pertaining to Africa, its global diasporas, and its connected or shared societies, as well as foster global interrelationships between Africa and the Americas, Asia, Australasia and Oceania, and Europe.

Notwithstanding any provisions of the Codes and Policies of The Ikoku Group or any other applicable documents, guidelines, laws, policies, or equivalent legal instruments, no objectives of The Ikoku Group shall supersede or be of greater benefit, import, or priority than the core, express and founding mission and purposes of The Ikoku Group as defined, described and delineated above. No activities, operations, or other processes of The Ikoku Group shall entail any of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices. And any version of such practices — as well as any accruing of advantage, benefit, or information through such practices, and also any natural or legal persons assisting, employing, permitting, planning, or otherwise conducting or promoting such practices — are by definition incompatible with The Ikoku Group as well as its founding, development, administration, management, and operation; and upon the discovery of such practices, reporting to, remedies to, and subsequent remedying with the Founder as well as The Ikoku Group shall be conducted and sought immediately.

For these reasons, no person or entity may become or remain qualified as board or committee member, director, trustee, officer, executive, manager or other leadership, staff or employee, advisor or consultant, provider of care, of education, of mentorship, or of training, affiliate, partner, representative, recipient of funds or resources, researcher or observer, sponsor, supervisor, volunteer, parental entity, voting or decision-making entity, member or stakeholder, or other agent of The Ikoku Group (including its divisions, series, subsidiaries, affiliates, and partners) if conducting or promoting any of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices and their attendant actions, activities, or behaviors, or their equivalent, as well as if in intentional violation of the core, express and founding purposes described above, the Founding and Governing Code of Ethics, or any of the ensuing codes, ethics, policies, protections, and rights provided for by The Ikoku Group concerning confidentiality, consent, privacy, respect, and unconsented care, education, experimentation, monitoring, research, tracking, training, supervision, or surveillance. Due to this stipulation, under no circumstances shall the following persons — as well as any affiliates, associates, collaborators, employees, employers, executives, leaders, members, partners, representatives, staff, volunteers, third parties and other agents of said persons — qualify:

Example of Natural Person — any natural person who engages in, aids in, or otherwise encourages, fosters, or promotes any of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices and their attendant actions, activities, or behaviors; who engages in, aids in, or otherwise encourages, fosters, or promotes the intentional interference with or violation of the codes, policies, protections, rights, studies, or teachings pertaining to the prevention of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices and their attendant actions, activities, or behaviors and especially the Founding Code of Ethics; who engages in, aids in, or otherwise encourages, fosters, or promotes the impediment, interference, or diminishment of the Founder’s ability to determine, interpret, and ensure the core, express and founding mission and purposes of The Ikoku Group; and who engages in, aids in, or otherwise encourages, fosters, or promotes the impediment, interference, or diminishment of the Founder’s governance over and administration, management, and operation of The Ikoku Group and particularly the Founder’s ability to determine and ensure remedies and compliance with the codes, policies, protections rights, studies, or teachings of The Ikoku Group pertaining to the prevention of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices and their attendant actions, activities, or behaviors and especially the Founding Code of Ethics. For instance, in this case, Eleanor Marie Brown of Jamaica and the United States, Brown University, University of Oxford and Yale Law School.

Example of Legal Person — any legal person that engages in, aids in, or otherwise encourages, fosters or promotes any of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices and their attendant actions, activities, or behaviors; that engages in, aids in, or otherwise encourages, fosters, or promotes the intentional interference with or violation of the codes, policies, protections rights, studies, or teachings pertaining to the prevention of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices and their attendant actions, activities, or behaviors and especially the Founding Code of Ethics; that engages in, aids in, or otherwise encourages, fosters, or promotes the impediment, interference, or diminishment of the Founder’s ability to determine, interpret, and ensure the core, express and founding mission and purposes of The Ikoku Group; and that engages in, aids in, or otherwise encourages, fosters, or promotes the impediment, interference, or diminishment of the Founder’s governance over and administration, management, and operation of The Ikoku Group and particularly the Founder’s ability to determine and ensure remedies and compliance with the codes, policies, protections rights, studies, or teachings of The Ikoku Group pertaining to the prevention of the aforementioned dehumanizing or subhumanizing practices and their attendant actions, activities, or behaviors and especially the Founding Code of Ethics. For instance, in this case, Leland Stanford Jr University, also known as Stanford University, of Palo Alto, California and The New York Times Company of New York, New York.

Example of Government Person — as well as, additionally, for related ethics, governance, policies and protections reasons — any government or political person, including but not limited to any political party or organization, any government or public authority, entity, office, official or other agent, and any person who has held such authority, office, position or equivalent capacity, function or relationship within the preceding ten (10) years.

And furthermore, by using or visiting, in any way, The Ikoku Group, any area, part, section or properties of The Ikoku Group, any area, part, section or properties of its divisions, series, subsidiaries or affiliates, as well as any of its Products or Services, including the Sites, you accept and agree to the statements, terms, conditions and requirements described above and on this section regarding the Founding and Governance of The Ikoku Group, and in the Codes and Policies, in their entirety without modification.