Economics - Perils, Plunder, Squander and History!

It is an age-old truism that Afrikan souls are naturally blessed with an abundance of resource. Afrikan soil is magnificently rich. In this, Afrikan souls have been subject to invasion and conquest over the course of recent centuries and beyond. For Afrikan souls in the west the vast theft and extractions that have enriched Europe can often be readily identified. Indeed, the huge multitudes of Afrikans that have been physically extracted by European forces live on generationally throughout the western hemisphere.

The insidious tactics used by European powers are many and include ones that they have subsequently used to avoid being held accountable. Of course, Europeans had also to contend with surviving the climate conditions of Afrika. So, aAccording to one source:

“when Portuguese traders arrived on the west coast of Afrika, they kidnapped and raped Afrikan women and raised the mulatto sons to be their slave-trading partners. These mixed-race ‘Lancados’ are among those referred to when it is claimed that ‘Afrikans’ sold slaves”.

 In another vein, and perhaps one that may be more readily overlooked by Afrikan souls in the west is the incursions of foreign forces that devasted Afrika prior to European enslavement that came from the further east. Indeed, it is the already weakened, forcibly converted to foreign religion, subdued and disordered societies that then becomes the European target:

“The Arab assault on Afrika and Afrikans has been, like that of the Europeans, a bloody expansionist saga of invasion, conquest, occupation, expropriation, slaving, racist contempt and discrimination. And it lasted eight centuries longer than that of the Europeans! Whereas that of the Europeans began in the 15th century, that of the Arabs began in the 7th century. Before that, not one inch Afrikan territory belonged to the Arabs. Then, suddenly, with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other, and hunger for land and thirst for loot in their eyes, Arab hordes charged out of their desert homeland and overran Egypt. Their armies reached the north Atlantic coast of Afrika, and all of supra-Sahara Afrika fell under their hooves. Some of the aboriginal Afrikans of that region fled; those who didn’t were swamped by Arab settlers, and culturally assimilated through relentless Arabisation”.

Some of the converted Afrikan heads of state in history were so thoroughly indoctrinated with alien ideals that they squandered huge amounts of Afrikan natural resource in the extreme journeying to lands under foreign rule sometimes in the name of ‘religious pilgrimage’:

“The greatest event of the reign Mansa Musa was his famous pilgrimage to Mecca, which occurred in 1324…After months of preparation, the royal pilgrimage, 60,000 strong, started the long trek to Mecca. To finance this journey, 80 camels were loaded each with 300 pounds of gold dust…Gold and other valuable gifts were distributed with a lavish hand. There was a slump in the gold market in Cairo, brought about by a sharp increase in supplies of the precious metal, due to generous   gifts to prominent citizens of Cairo by Musa…The Mellestine monarch was such a free spender that he finally ran out of gold in Cairo, and found it necessary to borrow enough money enough money from certain merchants of that city to finance the return trip of his pilgrimage back home”.

There was not only squander but the sign post had been held up for ‘plentiful resources’ in west Afrika with protracted damage.

There are many economic lessons available to Afrikan souls throughout the historical experience and many of the cycles repeat themselves. The great thinker [Ahmose] Wilson shared the following:

“A people who do not share history, who do not appreciate the shared experiences that their history represents, are a people who cannot utilise mutual trust, dependability, and so forth, upon which to build an economic social system. Afrikan people who forget their history are a people who forget that they had an economy before the European [or others] came into existence. They are a people who forget that their economy was developed and maintained prior to the European imperial ascendancy”.

Ujamaa Kiburi Siku is a wonderful part of the spiritual-cultural observance calendar of the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation. It takes place in the first week of June marking the time of significant occurrence both on the continent of Afrika and in the diaspora concerning Afrikan economy. Ujamaa Kiburi Siku as with the other observances on the Afrikan cultural calendar is just that – an observance. Therefore, wherever the Afrikan is whether at home, at a community gathering or elsewhere it can be observed.

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