This project aimed to address the absence of data and recognition of intellectuals of colour in South Africa's mainstream national history. Over 20 months, a collaboration of creatives, historians, and actuaries worked together to uncover and reconstruct this deliberately subjugated history. We created a unique financial instrument called the Posthumous Life Policy™, which awarded a life policy to South Africa's first black graduate, 106 years after his death.

The awarding of the Posthumous Life Policy™ took the form of a web-based interactive documentary, entitled Finding the Forgotten Graduate. The documentary utilised gaming software and a timeline-based search to uncover forgotten graduates of colour, leading to the first black graduate.

The campaign was successful, with over 4.5 million views and higher-than-average viewer and click-through rates. It also resulted in the archiving of a long record of black excellence in South African history, including the recognition of the first black doctor, medical missionary, and university graduate on Wikipedia. The Posthumous Life Policy™ pay-out will continue to fund the studies of exceptional scholars in the future.