Kitabu Cha Ani (The Book of Ani)

The exceptional wisdom words of the Afrikan is a wonderful gift of the Creator Supreme. The wisdom tradition is magnificently enriched with a plethora of utterances to empower Afrikan life to the full.  The words of the Ani a wisdom guide of ancient Afrika provides an insightful example of scribed knowingness. With the advent of ever-expanding experiences from Afrikan journeying thousands of years hence (including the devastating disruption of the Maafa of recent centuries), an adaptation and interpretation by this author is presented here. In celebrating Afrikan Historia Msimu the great writings of the Afrikan history continuum can be revisited to inspire, lift and be a progressive guide in spirit life. Afrikan history is living history. The Kiswahili phrase for The Book of Ani is Kitabu Cha Ani:

Kitabu Cha Ani (The Book of Ani)

Do not be a wrong doer nor be unjust and avoid regression in the Afrikan nation so that your name may not be soiled. Do not be consumed with negativity and become disruptive, contentious nor quarrelsome within the Afrikan nation. Rather maintain the upright composure that will serve well the progress of the Afrikan nation. Avoid substance misuse and go not in the presence of the intoxicated soul if it promises to bring you horror.

Pour libation for your Ancestors who have transitioned into the ethereal realm of the Great. The Creator Supreme will witness your action and accept it. Do not forget to do this even when you are away from home. For as you do for your great forebears and have been diligent in the betterment of your own people yourself, the young and generations to come will do for you also.

Do not go to taverns nor other places to misuse substances and become intoxicated lest words that are not of Haki (Righteousness) fall from your mouth and you know not what you are saying. If you fall your limbs may be broken and there will be no one to help you. Even others gone astray may stand up and say “Put the drunkard out”. If one comes to seek and talk with you, one will find you lying on the ground as if you were a little child.

Do all that you can to ensure that Afrikan souls are secured in self-governing nationhood so that they may transition to the ancestral realm because of genuine natural cause. The enemy intends to continually force Afrikan people to say of their blessed young “that beautiful soul was too young to be taken”. By enemy hands loss of life can seize the Afrikan baby at his or her mother’s breast or as the Afrikan man and woman have reached senior years.

Guard against words and deeds of deception and against words that are against Ukweli (Truth) in the Afrikan nation. Destroy the desire to do and speak wrongfulness within you. For those that do wrong in the Afrikan nation they have burdened their own souls to be ill at ease.

Stay away from the alien aggressor of Afrikan people and take neither him nor her for a companion. Take then for a friend the Afrikan who strives for that which is true and just, one whose actions you have observed. And if your Haki (Righteousness) equals his or hers, your friendship will be balanced.

Small gifts for the building of the Afrikan nation return greater and what is restored and developed brings abundance. The enemy attempts to steal that which belongs to the Afrikan. Build to protect what belongs to the Afrikan and you will always have sanctuary. Be watchful of what is yours lest you end up as a beggar in the clutches of enemy hands. One who is always idle and avoids working in the interests of his or her own people defeats him or herself but the Afrikan who is diligent in the uplift of the race is honoured.

It is the Creator Supreme that grants the Afrikan nation children. Let your heart know them.  Whoever hungers, let them be satisfied in the house of their guardians. Let them find there a well which protects them. Be not without a generous heart for your own and within righteous order for it is the Creator Supreme who gives you wealth.

Do not sit and leave an Afrikan elder standing even if you have achieved high status in your profession or role. No fault is found with good character but a character of wilful disorder brings blame upon him or herself.

Walk each day in the way of Haki (Righteousness) and you will reach your place of destiny. Never speak words of negative malicious disfunction and disorder amongst your own people, a word spoken carelessly some day when you are gossiping may overturn your house. If you are found generous in securing strong Afrikan nationhood in times of prosperity, when adversity comes you will be able to bear it. If you are righteous you will be recognised and respected. And whether you are among many or few, you will find your Afrikan family and Afrikan friends and all you authentically envisage will be granted.

Let not your heart be revealed to the enemy nor to the stranger lest they use your words against you. Offensive words that come from your mouth, if respected can make bitter enemies. A person can be ruined by his or her tongue. Take care and you will fare well. The heart of the Afrikan is vast and full of answers of all kinds. Choose then those words for the good of the Afrikan nation and speak them and keep those that are not good enclosed in your person. The malicious answer provokes destruction, but the Afrikan who speaks with Haki (Rightousness) is loved.

Be generous to your parents within the Afrikan nation and care for them as they have cared for you.  As the Afrikan child, under natural and healthy circumstance, is progressively nurtured by his or her parents during childbirth and rearing so too is the child is nurtured and developed to best serve the Afrikan nation.  The Afrikan parent will clean the baby’s filth without disgust in the heart and without saying, “O, what can I do?” The Afrikan parent will educate the child in wisdom ways of Afrikan ascendancy. Thus, when you have matured to marry and continue to build the Afrikan family, lose not your sight of your own childhood. Raise your children in the ways of Afrikan ascendancy as you were raised, lest the Creator Supreme receive complaints that you have abandoned the Afrikan nation and punish you.

Be sure to build the Afrikan nation so that no Afrikan stands by without being able to eat. If the Afrikan finds him or herself in the clutches of the enemy food can be denied, made scarce or controlled at a premium. Naturally, the Creator Supreme blessed the Afrikan with nutritious abundance that is always here, it is breath that leaves the body.  Therefore, the Afrikan must be self-governing and rightfully partake of his or her gifts from the Creator Supreme. An Afrikan may be materially rich or otherwise but bread remains with those who share it within the Afrikan nation. One who was rich last year may not be this year. Therefore, be not anxious to fill your belly without regard for others in the Afrikan nation. For you know not where your course will lead. If you become needy, another may do good by you. The water course of last year has disappeared in its place. Great waters have become tracts of dry land and seashores have disappeared into the ocean depths. No man or woman, then, walks a single way. This is a lesson from the sacred universe.

Seek to keep your home void of hostile alien influence. Do not order your spouse around in the house when you know it is kept in excellent order. Do not maliciously ask “where is it?” or contemptuously say “bring it” when things have been put in their proper place. Be observant and keep a home of harmony. The Afrikan home of harmony is of great support to the Afrikan nation. There are many ones who do not know this. But if one keeps a harmonising home in the uplift of the Afrikan nation and refrains from provoking strife, then one will not see its inception. Thus, every soul who wishes to have a well governed house, must first have governance of the inner self and make best efforts to protect the home from alien imposition.

Afrikan eldership comes from the cultivation and development in the ascendancy of the Afrikan nation. Alien forces of disruption seek to destroy Afrikan elders even from inception. Therefore, patience with those that are most senior in years can be of great importance. Answer them not who are angry unless without option. Let them have their way if possible and within righteous order. Speak pleasantly when they speak bitterly. For it is a remedy that soothes the heart. Contentious answers provoke strife and can lead to great frustration.  Let not your heart be troubled, for they will soon return to praise you when their hour of anger has passed. When your words please the heart, the heart is inclined to accept them. Seek to govern the inner self for Afrikan harmony to reign.

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Afrikan Historia Msimu is an observance period for the duration of the tenth month of the year (so-called October). This is a special time for learning, growth and development of the Afrikan experience in the world. It is a time of spiritual and cultural elevation as Afrikan history is restored to fabric of life in the living knowingness of the then, the now and tomorrow. Great ones of the Afrikan journey are highlighted and the symbols relevant to the time invigorate life in the imperative onward flow of global Afrikan ascendancy. This wonderful observance is a part of the cultural calendar of the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation (URAN).

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