The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Abimbola Akeem Owoade, has declared that Africa is today at the crossroad of history to lead a liberating revolution in knowledge production, dissemination and utilisation.
A statement Thursday by his director of Media and Publicity, Bode Durojaiye, quoted Alaafin as stating this while addressing Yorùbá Diaspora at Bahia State University (UNEB), in Brazil.
The Alaafin said: “The utilitarian value of education must be our concern now more than ever before, as the deep will begin to call to the deep in an all inclusive enterprise, to demonstrate the excellence and leadership of the Yoruba race in knowledge, production, dissemination and application.’’
Oba Owoade added that the Yoruba indigenous knowledge on its own finds application and relevance in all spheres of human endeavour and forms the basis of development, adding that the basic culture and civilisation which the Yoruba have built still endured and remained fulcrum of political, economic, religious and intellectual development till today.
“Africa is today at the crossroad of history, to lead a liberating revolution in knowledge production, dissemination and utilisation. The utilitarian value of education must be our concern now more than ever before, as the deep will begin to call to the deep in an all inclusive enterprise, to demonstrate the excellence and leadership of the Yoruba race in knowledge, production, dissemination and application.
“I am here as conscience, symbol, and spirit of the Yoruba and the personification of its glorious traditions of excellent public administrations, social welfarism, egalitarian social and kinship system.”