Celebrating Kwanzaa

The Creator Supreme has blessed the Afrikans with the divine and natural genius to define and establish time for themselves. This marvellous gift has been with the Afrikan from the beginning. The ancient harvesting observances from which Kwanzaa has emerged such as Pert-En-Min are a testament to this. Of course, the organic and ever developing growth of Afrikan people reflects the growth and development that has brought forth the beautiful creative restoration of harvesting observance in the form of Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa is an observance for the entire Afrikan world community. It is a wonderful time of year and as such a few points on the celebration are highlighted here adapted from the expressions of a number of Afrikan wisdom guides and adapted by this author:

1)    Celebrate Kwanzaa as the observance it is.This wonderful time of year is an observance. Like other observances of the Afrikan spiritual and cultural calendar Afrikan souls have great gatherings and other events to celebrate the season. It is certainly a wonderful and magnificent to must to ingather as a people. But the event (though it may be an important part) is not the observance. The observance is and remains wherever the Afrikan is, because it simply is that time of year. If the Afrikan is at home – it is Kwanzaa. If the Afrikan is at the community centre – it is Kwanzaa. It is simply not possible to go to Kwanzaa for it is Kwanzaa time. Illustratively, this would be like the European attempting to go to his valentines day. For him it is that day whatever the location, whatever the activity. Kwanzaa is deeply meaningful to Afrikan people of the world and as such is celebrated at the spiritual and cultural observance level.

2)    If you are aware of Kwanzaa, grow in learning more about this wonderful observance that has been creatively restored from grand Afrikan continuum of the ages and spread the word to other Afrikan souls in whatever way or means possible. Kwanzaa  is of and for Afrikan people and is a celebration of ascension. If there are Afrikan souls that are not aware of Kwanzaa then there exists soil to be fertilised for essential growth.

3)    Affirm and ensure the basic values of Kwanzaa remain in-tact. Kwanzaa is a wonderful time of creative expression and joyous celebratory activities. The spiritual and cultural joy comes from the glory of Afrikan living of which the values are core. In keeping the rooted values strong the blossom of cultivated growth is magnificent.

4)    Kwanzaa is both refection and projection. Celebration of joyous cultivated yield of the Afrikan harvest of growth and development from the year that has been is joined with projection for more ascension in the coming year cycle. In this, the annual Afrikan continuum is punctuated and energised in a beautiful way.

In celebrating Kwanzaa the Afrikan is celebrating self – from the person self to the entire nation. This is magnificent time of year indeed.

Being a part of the organised spiritual and cultural mission for Afrikan ascendancy is vital all year round cultivation for Afrikan souls. The Universal Royal Afrikan Nation is such an organ. With its all-year round spiritual and cultural calendar – from observance to observance Afrikan life ascends in a holistic cohesiveness steeped rightly in the Afrikan way. The annual results of this are a great harvest to celebrate during the Kwanzaa period.

The wonderful observance of Kwanzaa takes place from the 26th of so-called December to the 1st of so-called January. It is seven-day period of Afrikan celebration and spiritual-cultural enrichment. Based upon the harvesting traditions of the Afrikan world this celebration of first fruits has at its core the Nguzo Saba (Seven Principles) together with an beautiful array of deeply meaningful symbols established elevate the Afrikan world community to its fullest flourishing.

Kwanzaa is one of the essential cultural observances of life within the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation. The Universal Royal Afrikan Nation (URAN) is an Afrikan-centred spiritual and cultural mission for ascendancy that embodies living spiritually and culturally rooted life. 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.

In his capacity as an Afrikan-centred spiritual cultural practitioner this author is available for further learning in this regard and also for the carrying out of ceremonies such as naming and name reclamation. For details please click here.

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Also, in the approach to the important cultural observance of Kwanzaa, the text: From Pert-En-Min to Kwanzaa - A Kuumba (Creative) Restoration of Sacred First Fruits by this author is available to purchase online here. This publication provides informative detail on the of the Kwanzaa celebration. You can also visit the institution of Yemanja to pick up a copy.

At nominal cost, also consider acquisition of an a4 laminate poster of articulations by this author when visiting the Yemanja institution to enrol, consult, learn, gather or otherwise.

Also, visit www.u-ran.org for links to Afrikan liberation Love radio programme on Universal Royal Afrikan Radio online.