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The ASHE Foundation has described August 20, celebrated as Isese Day, as a significant occasion for the revival of Indigenous African civilisation and a broader movement for Black civilisational liberation.
President of the foundation, Prince Justice Faloye, said Isese represented the traditional way of life that evolved from the Yoruba civilisation and preserved a body of knowledge, values and institutions that shaped African society long before colonial intervention.
According to Faloye, the ancient city of Ifẹ̀ was an important centre of early human settlement and social organisation, where philosophical, moral, political and economic systems developed and influenced communities across the region.
He said the significance of Isese extended beyond religious observance, describing it as a cultural and civilisational framework capable of reconnecting Africans with their historical identity and strengthening collective political and economic consciousness.
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Faloye said Ifá, which he described as a 16-sector knowledge system, contained accumulated observations, analyses, philosophies and sciences concerning the environment and the universe.
He noted that related systems of knowledge existed among several African communities, citing Afa among the Igbo, Fa among the Igala and Iha among the Edo as evidence of a shared civilisational heritage that transcended contemporary ethnic boundaries.
He said the celebration of Isese Day on August 20 should therefore be viewed within the wider context of African cultural renaissance and the recovery of Indigenous knowledge from Ifẹ̀ to the wider African continent and the African Diaspora.
Faloye also linked the significance of August to the history of Black resistance, noting that the month is increasingly associated with Black August and several important episodes in the struggle for liberation
