Nigeria, Aug. 2 -- As Ogori prepares to celebrate its New Year on Thursday, 6 August, the second Ebina, this article examines the indigenous four-day calendar through which generations of our people have reckoned with time, organised economic life and coordinated communal obligations. Beyond the annual celebration and the much-anticipated Ewe-eji market, the Ogori New Year offers an important window into an indigenous knowledge system that has survived alongside the Gregorian calendar and deserves deliberate documentation and transmission to future generations.

Introduction

Across Africa, communities developed indigenous systems for measuring time and organising social and economic life long before the widespread adoption of the Gregori...