The Ogori: Indigenous timekeeping, economic order and the new year, By Petra Akinti Onyegbule
Ogori maidens 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.
Within a culture whose four-day calendar itself assigns a prominent place to market activity, the presence of a special annual market as a major feature of the New Year further illustrates the relationship between time, commerce and communal life.
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.
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