Garvey’s Word on the Call to Afrika

“There are many persons who continue in ignorance of the real meaning of the Back to Afrika Movement. There are many others who wickedly misinterpret and misrepresent the meaning with the idea of frustrating the movement. This also is a betrayal of [the Afrikan].

The Back to Afrika Movement is a form of expression which conjures up in the mind of the ignorant and of the wicked, a scene of wild haste in the demolition of homes, the breaking up of prosperous business associations, the exasperations of kinship with those not of like minds of ourselves, the mad folly of pilgrimages by land to the sea-board, embarkations for various destined ports, by fleet of ships across the trackless ocean, to the great continent of Afrika – a land of ready-made institutions of the most advanced civilisations with social, civic and national amenities, providing adequate princely living to each and every [returning soul]. These are a few of the utopian ideas with which ignorance and wickedness invest the Back to Afrika Movement.

But what is the truth of the whole matter? The Back to Afrika Movement is rather a simple, natural, logical and spiritual ‘Call to Afrika’. A spontaneous prompting, an irrepressible urge has found its birth in the minds of the sons [and daughters] of Afrika so all places of the earth in which they dwell. Silent, unheralded, swift and mysterious, out of the depths of their misery and suffering, out of their woes and despair has arisen an indescribable cry, a wail of lamentation produced in the clarion call of [Garveyism]; reverberating and re-echoing in the now clear and unmistakable language of an oppressed and down-trodden people who cry for deliverance, and has at last moved the Omnipotence of the Deity into action.

The Call to Afrika is still more than the indefinable cry of an oppressed people, more than the interpretation and the inspired utterances of a bold and inspired leader, whom the [Afrikan] acclaims, the Call to Afrika is the voice of the Omnipotent. Let my people go, that they might serve me. The Call to Afrika is the Omnipotent in the act of delivering [Afrikan souls] from bondage.

We do not contend that the Call to Afrika, viz., that her sons [and daughters] should arise and seek her redemption, is natural and inevitable to Afrika – bereft of her children carried into captivity and enslaved in alien hands, herself overrun by alien peoples, partitioned among them, and her sons [and daughters] enslaved, reduced and degraded in their own soil. [Five] long centuries of Afrikan suffering under the iniquities of [enslavement].  [Five] hundred years of unparalleled horrors intolerable conditions prevailing to this very moment could not but move the heavens of justice to vindicate her cause.

Slowly and surely the arm of Omnipotence has been outstretched to bring justice to the [Afrikan]. [The Creator Supreme] is not passing through the…sea wall. [The Creator Supreme’s ]  day of victory is at hand”.    

The observance of Musa Msimu takes place during the month of so-called August and is a wonderful time to celebrate the mighty example of Marcus Garvey and the Movement that he created led in order for future generations of Afrikans to have their guide for complete freedom and nationhood. Musa Msimu is a part of the Afrikan Cultural calendar of the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation (URAN).

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.

The important book entitled: From Musa to Afrikan Fundamentalism – The Afrikan Spiritual Essence of Marcus Garvey is available to purchase online here. The book trailer can be accessed by clicking here. Or arrangement can be made to obtain a copy from the institution of Yemanja click here.

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