Kwanzaa – Celebrating Ancient Future

The following is an account taken from the important text: From Pert-En-Min to Kwanzaa – The Kuumba (Creative Restoration) of Sacred First Fruits. Illustratively, it includes quotations from foreign outside onlookers:

“The origins of Kwanzaa lie firmly in Afrikan soil and the celebrations known as ‘first fruits’ that are found in Afrikan civilisation throughout the continent from ancient times.

In Kemet (Ancient Egypt) the festival was called Pert-En-Min (The Coming Forth of Min) a time for the grand celebration in reaping the rewards of the harvest. So fruitfully rich was the agricultural endeavours of the time that this period was also referred to as the Black season.

‘PERT (Sowing) from mid-November to mid-March, the equivalent to our Spring, which the Egyptians called the Coming Forth. Also called the Black Season.’

This celebration is a part of a cultural calendar that emerges from the creative genius of Afrikan people many thousands of years ago.

‘The festival calendar, as it appears to us now, spans three thousand years of Egyptian history an probably was being recorded, observed, and manipulated many thousands of years before that.’

First Fruits celebrations span the Afrikan continent. In Zulu tradition it is known as Umkhosi, the Matabele call it Inxwala, amongst the Ashanti it is known as Afahye or Odwira ; in Yoruba tradition it has various names including Eje and Oro Olofin. Yoruba, Ashanti other west Afrikan people commonly refer to these celebrations as the New Yam Festivals.

The powerful traditions of Afrikan that have helped to sustain and elevate life with the inclusion of deeply meaningful and effective value systems such as Maat have been at the heart of Afrikan life beginning in times well before other peoples of the world developed anything that could in any way be described as civilisation. It was the depth and value of these traditions that were at the core of the magnificent feats of development in culture, spirituality and creative genius that are still evidenced in the legacies and in the various expressions of Afrikan people today.”

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Unfortunately, the forces of anti-Afrikan agency attempt to force feed the Afrikan with the fallacy that somehow self-determined Afrikan spiritual and cultural life as it manifests in the now whimsically popped up in some freakish creative splurge in complete isolation from anything else. This is wicked divide and rule tactics to fragment and break-up the Afrikan continuum of past, present and future and to destroy the substance of spirit life. In this,  the real and only freaks are the savage alien vagabond criminal pirate bent on destruction of Afrikan oneness within the Afrikan continuum.

Marvellously, even during the kidnapping and displacement of the Maafa the Afrikan retained living knowingness of their first fruits of the harvest celebrations outside of the continent. For example, in the islands of New Afrika (so-called Caribbean) Afrikans celebrate Crop Over.

Kwanzaa is a wonderful part of Afrikan life and the Afrikan continuum that has been creatively and beautifully restored from the Afrikan’s magnificent ancient future. The living knowingness of what has been is built upon, the best thrust of elevation is enlivened in the now, the basis for progressive future projection is enlivened.

First fruits celebrations have been with the Afrikan since the beginning and its ancient roots are deep and substance filled. In observing Kwanzaa the Afrikan celebrates the living manifestation of the then, the now and the tomorrows to come. Kwanzaa is then, now and tomorrow because the Afrikan is then, now and tomorrow.

During the wonderful observance of Kwanzaa the grand yield of the Afrikan continuum that comes to fruition from all-year-round self-determined activity is celebrated. Kwanzaa is a wonderful time to celebrate the Afrikan ancient future.

Being a part of an organ with Afrikan spiritual and cultural fabric and missioning for Afrikan ascendancy is key to bring the Afrikan ancient future to full fruition.  The Universal Royal Afrikan Nation is an organ of spiritual and cultural fabric that carries all-year-round living continuance from observance to observance. This is a wonderfully blessed yield to celebrate during the Kwanzaa period.

 The wonderful observance of Kwanzaa takes place from the 26th of so-called December to the 1st of so-called January. It is seven-day period of Afrikan celebration and spiritual-cultural enrichment. Based upon the harvesting traditions of the Afrikan world this celebration of first fruits has at its core the Nguzo Saba (Seven Principles) together with an beautiful array of deeply meaningful symbols established elevate the Afrikan world community to its 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.

In his capacity as an Afrikan-centred spiritual cultural practitioner this author is available for further learning in this regard and also for the carrying out of ceremonies such as naming and name reclamation. For details please click here.

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Also, in the approach to the important cultural observance of Kwanzaa, the text: From Pert-En-Min to Kwanzaa - A Kuumba (Creative) Restoration of Sacred First Fruits by this author is available to purchase online here. This publication provides informative detail on the of the Kwanzaa celebration. You can also visit the institution of Yemanja to pick up a copy.

At nominal cost, also consider acquisition of an a4 laminate poster of articulations by this author when visiting the Yemanja institution to enrol, consult, learn, gather or otherwise.

Also, visit www.u-ran.org for links to Afrikan liberation Love radio programme on Universal Royal Afrikan Radio online.