Is Not Economy Separate From Culture?
- By kwende ukaidi
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- 02 Jun, 2023
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Celebrating the Empowerment of Self-Economy

It is ageless truism that culture
for the primary and spirit people of creation is rooted and core substance of
life. Yet, is the area of economic functioning somehow separate and distinct
from the Afrikan way of life? Surely, such a question, if asked of the Afrikan
in their natural norm of thriving and pinnacle civilisation would be considered
nonsensical. For, their upright core substance of life naturally enlivens and
gives meaningful existence and order to the panorama of life activity including
the vital functioning of self-economy. In short, flourishing Afrikan economy is
naturally embedded within the Afrikan way of life with all the necessary values
and energisers necessary for the economic empowerment that serves pinnacle
civilisation.
So, what of contemporary circumstances? Well, certainly the impact of the Maafa of recent centuries has wreaked havoc to the Afrikan natural norm of pinnacle civilisation. It would certainly serve others that mean the Afrikan ill well to sever Afrikan souls from their highly cultured norm and induce the notion that economy, finance and the like are separate from any semblance of self-determined core substance of living. In such a scenario, an obvious benefit to others of ill would be the potential to perpetually confine the Afrikan into exclusive service of whatever ‘economic’ or ‘financial’ functioning best serves those same others of ill. At the same time, the Afrikan may become pliable enough to deem abject neglect or abandonment of their own natural thriving of cultured economy flow as somehow being a norm.
Even a cursory examination of the progressive reality of enduring cultured economic ascension throughout the Afrikan continuum contemporary conditions of disruption represent a state of calamity at best. Still, it is only Afrikan souls themselves that can restore their empowering and natural norm of economic prowess. Certainly, the greater the restorative efforts are made in cultural recovery – the greater the recovery in self-economy. For, flourishing economy for this primary and spirit people of creation is inherently a vital part of cultured living.
Here, security is also key. Just as culture and its restoration ought to be safeguarded from contaminants of ill, self-destructive wrongdoing and the like as a whole, its sphere of economic functioning also ought to attract protection from the same.
The pioneering soul people who brought culture and civilisation into being surely have a duty and responsibility to themselves to realise their optimal self-economy in service of ascension for their norm of pinnacle civilisation.
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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