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The African Sociocultural, Harmony and Enlightenment Foundation (ASHE) has criticized cultural identification conflicts in Africa. It asserts that the original African civilization, based on Ifa-Afa-Iha-Fa, has no shrines to the Almighty God or the universe, nor does it name its people after the Almighty God.
ASHE maintains that this world’s oldest and most advanced civilizational philosophy breaks down the universe and Almighty God into 401 distinct cyclical spiritual and philosophical essences, a belief system known as scientific spiritualism, distinct from religious dogma.
Prince Justice Faloye, ASHE president, stated that this African system, thousands of years older than others, is inherently scientific. It holds that everything requires negative and positive balance, unlike the 2,000-year-old Judeo-Christian and Islamic views that God is good all the time while evil belongs to the Devil.
Faloye explained: If the Almighty God created everything, then God is as evil as good. Indigenous Africans lack a Devil/Satan figure; instead, they identify personal spiritual essences and emphasize their positive qualities in names like Osunyoyin, Ogunwusi, and Faloye.
“Africans were named for specific family or environmental spiritual essences, not as composites of all 401 essences like Olu or Chukwu, the Almighty God. This makes them spiritually like Buhari, who once said he belonged to everybody but to nobody,” Faloye said.
He noted that Christians adopted “Olu,” one of the names of Orisa Oluaye/Obaluaye, to mean Almighty God. “Chukwu” derives from Chi (soul) and Ukwu (collective), a blend of all Chi and their essences.”Every human enters the world with a specific Chi. Upon death, it returns to its space in the pantheon of Chi called Chukwu. If it returns ambiguous or corrupted, it faces rejection, and the spirit roams in space.”
“Our colonized minds and spirituality hinder national political and economic development, as our politics rely on Awalokan tribal and religious prebendalism. In this ‘We are next’ arrangement, who is ‘We’ when our cultural and civilizational identities are warped by Abrahamic coloniality?
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“The ‘We’ of tribal collectives was externally designed and labeled for colonial agendas, balkanizing our civilization into tribes. Their elites then share our commonwealth with friends, family, and masters,” Faloye explained.
He added that when the British colonized Lagos in 1861, paving the way for Nigeria—they pursued civilizational balkanization and erasure. They commissioned Bishop Ajayi Crowther to write a Yoruba Bible and Igbo dictionary, assaulting Ifa-Afa-Iha-Fa (which unified our narrative) and creating linguistic gulfs between dialect continua, fostering regional Yoruba and Igbo tribal identities for divide-and-rule.
Faloye illustrated with Donna Theresa’s song: “Control the words, control the story, control the mind, without the slavery physical chains.
“This epistemicide, the killing of our civilizational knowledge in history, science, and philosophy, laid the foundation for the coloniality of our Being or Self. Esu, the operating system of the Ifa-Afa-Iha-Fa knowledge bank and source of civilizational wisdom, was maliciously labeled Satan.
Obaluaye, which provides civilizational structures, was banned and demonized as merely Soponna (smallpox). In Igboland, the iron production center, Ekwensu was demonized and discarded.
Colonized minds shunned their vital spiritual essences for the ambiguity of foreign Almighty Gods. Everyone is born with Ori/Chi, a personal spiritual makeup of essences for their earthly journey. Decivilized into tribes whose neocolonial leaders competed for colonial crumbs, people were demobilized, disconnected from essences like Obaluaye (structure), Esu (information), and Oya (revolutionary change). They were left with superficial ones: Osun (music, beauty), Yemoja (childbirth), Orunmila (food), and a warped Olokun under colonized consciousness.
“Charity begins at home. For Nigeria and the Black race to improve, we must discover our true essences encoded in our personal creator (Ori/Chi), hone their skills and talents for personal and collective empowerment. Those who excel become ‘Eni Ori Sa’; those who fulfill their Ori’s destiny thrive. Little wonder Obasanjo—Obaluaye Sanjo (profitable structure), born in Olokun, has sculpted modern Nigerian consciousness,” Faloye said.
He lamented how XYZ generations from the 1970s spin spiritually meaningless names, swayed by prosperity gospel cults that neglect individual Ori/Chi essences.
“For example, Jesutomi or Chimamanda. The Nigerian author renamed herself Chimamanda, a mix of Igbo Chi and European ‘Amanda’ (love). Though married into European civilization, questions remain about her Chi’s impact on her life and offspring.
“We must avoid attributing composite or foreign essences to our Ori/Chi. Confucius said rectification of terms is the first step to freedom for enslaved peoples. We must revisit our civilizational reality; everyone needs to understand their spiritual essence, or lack thereof, in their Ori/Chi,” he concluded.
