Build Where You Stand – Performing Art

Creative expression amongst Afrikan souls has been of superlative quality throughout its various forms and throughout their richly endowed continuum. It is naturally so, for it is the outward expression of their norm of highly cultured living. Indeed, it is the outward expression of the most magnificent and enduring civilisations ever to exist. In their normality of self-determined upright excellence, the avenue of performing art informed, inspired and entertained in such a way as to enhance and energise this soul people’s continual constructive efforts and upright ascension. Wherever this people determined themselves to be the building and security of their highly civilised lives could be progressively energised by their performing arts.  

According to a contemporary mainstream source, the term performing art is defined as:

“forms of creative activity that are performed in front of an audience, such as drama, music, and dance”.

Unfortunately, in a state of interruption and disruption, the highly cultured and constructive norms of Afrikan life can be set upon in acutely destructive ways by others that mean the Afrikan ill. If destructively imposed upon to be at a cultural deficit, soul people can become susceptible to the destructive vices and contaminants of ill pushed and peddled by others. As a result, performance art, whilst retaining certain aspects of the attractive and creative Afrikan spirit, may become laced with vile, denigrating and self-destructive content.  With this, Afrikan souls may end up erroneously considering destructive ills to be some sort of ‘norm’ and encouraging each other to engage in its furtherance in the name of art. Meanwhile, others that mean the Afrikan ill, can fuel dire activity as a means to render soul people distracted from their natural truism of being the highly civilised builders for their ascension.

Surely, Afrikan souls have a duty and responsibility to themselves to utilise whatever performing art platform they can to elevate themselves into a state of fullest flourishing and avoid misuse of themselves to wallow in the abnormality of self-destructive expression. Of course, each soul whether as a performer or recipient of the performing art surely ought to restore a level of self-knowingness in order to discern what is upright for Afrikan ascension and what is not. In this, all souls can  participate in the elevation and security of their people.

Whether located here, there or elsewhere Afrikan souls can utilise performance art as a vehicle for the betterment of themselves. Creative expression can have a positive impact on the lives of Afrikan souls at  whatever station, level or status held. Thus, self-knowingness as a responsible performer and as a discerning recipient remains key.

The great hero Omowale Malcolm X eloquently pointed out that the enslaved Afrikans on the plantation who vitally retained some level of self-knowingness expressed the contempt for the dire conditions that they had been subjected to;

“Everything they sang, every song, had a hint in it that they weren’t satisfied here, that they weren’t being treated right”.  

Their awareness of the reality of conditions galvanised through creative expression energised multitudes of Afrikan souls to free themselves and establish their own flourishing societies. In the now, Afrikan souls can utilise their creative expressions in service of Afrikan elevation from wherever they stand. After all, civilisation is not of happenstance.

The Universal Royal Afrikan Nation (URAN) is an organ that is rooted in spiritual and cultural fabric for the imperative the mission of global Afrikan ascendancy. Throughout its annual observance calendar cycle URAN energises active knowingness in and from the core spirit levels of Afrikan beingness. To find out more about URAN and its spiritual-cultural mission for liberty and nationhood click here. The exquisite URAN pendant can be obtained online by clicking here.

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The important text: From Ajar to Omowale – The Spiritual & Garveyite Journey of Malcolm X by this author is available to purchase online here. The trailer for this important text can be found online here. This publication provides detail on the life and example of this great hero. You can also visit the establishment of Yemanja-O to pick up a copy.

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