Kwanzaa Celebrates Cultural Security (Reiterated)

One of the many age-old lessons from the Afrikan experience that is woven into the progressive  Afrikan wisdom tradition is that security is a vital component for the optimal functioning, maintenance and ascension of the self throughout its various levels from person to nationhood and beyond. At the core of secure living is the spiritual-cultural fabric that informs outward life expression and physical assertion.  Kwanzaa as a powerful observance that is accessible to the entire Afrikan world community carries with it symbols and values that hold security for the primary people of the world.

According to a popular mainstream platform the word security means:

“the state of being free from danger or threat”.

If applied to Afrikan life at the level of its cultural core then safeguarding Afrikan culture, its integrity and its engagement is all a part of keeping it free from danger or threat. Because culture provides fundamental framework for lived expression, security measure necessarily are inbuilt into its fabric. For example, a cursory glance at the Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) principle of the Nguzo Saba value system at the heart of Kwanzaa observance highlight a level of in-built security:

Kujichagulia (Self-Determination)

To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves. Instead of being defined, named, created for and spoken for by others.

Especially important as a result of the Maafa of recent centuries, such inherent security stands as vital protection against alien contaminates of ill set to destroy Afrikan life at its cultural core.

Further, the mainstream source also refers to security as:

“a thing deposited or pledged as a guarantee of the fulfilment of an undertaking”.

Of course, this immediately lends itself to contemporary financial application. However, if applied to Afrikan culture the investment, pledge and guarantee can be seen as that of self throughout its various levels. As such, are Afrikans souls of the world prepared then to fulfil their natural obligation to themselves in living their own culture with its inherent measures of security? Such a question in natural self-determined living would be nonsensical, however in an interrupted state of existence not only can the question be peddled as being plausible but worst yet the utterance of an answer in the negative could be aired and have listening ears to bogusly lend destructive validity.

Surely, then Afrikan souls in their imperative thrust to restore themselves in rootedness of their own cultural fabric ought to have purposeful focus on security measures. In any state of disruption or interruption that focus surely must then reflect any resultant critical conditions that exists. Indeed, if the condition is critical then cultural security may need to be addressed with a response of maximum security for its safekeeping.

Kwanzaa is time where the all-year-round effort to ensure Afrikan cultural security is maintained can be celebrated. Kwanzaa is (amongst its many other great qualities) is of pragmatic engagement. In securing Afrikan culture Afrikan souls are securing their own substance of life for their life’s 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.

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