Kwanzaa – Celebrating Love

The following is an account taken from the important text: From Afruika to Afrika Ukombozi Siku – The Living Observance of Afrika Liberation Day. It includes quotations from a number of Afrikan wisdom guides or teachers:

“For the Afrikan self-love is first a love for the ultimate source – Creator Supreme. The Creator Supreme is love. From this knowingness the Afrikan can reveal his or her true nature and divinity of self. For the Afrikan love is not superficial or aesthetic. It is profound and deep substance that has physical and aesthetic expression. To freely love and to freely express love is to be free. Hence, love and liberty are intertwined for wholesome progression. Knowingness of the self with the magnificent identity inheritance of what it means to be Afrikan. Here, identity is key in the oneness of mission fro nationhood where being organised in oneness is Afrikan collective love.

‘All persons of Afrikan [ascent] and origin are essential and integral parts of the same…Afrikan nation. A people who were separated from their ancestral homeland by the barbarous actions of the Aryan and Arab slave-traders cannot be expected to accept the nationalities imposed upon them by their enslavers. The Afrikan, in freedom, has the right to determine his own nation, to delimit that nationality, and to seek the greater ingathering of Afrikan people from all sectors of the Afrikan diaspora. AFRIKAN IDENTITY is a matter of common ethnicity, [ascent] and origin. It is real, physical and definite…AFRIKAN IDENTITY further states that all Black men and women are brothers and sisters and that we are, in fact, our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers. Common identity implies common and shared interests and common actions to solve common problems. In a competitive, heavily armed and dangerous world, the people who remain separated, isolated and weak will inevitably be overwhelmed by the organised and united races.’

Spirit incarceration in unfreedom imposed by alien forces is intentional destruction of love at all levels of Afrikan life. Love of the person self is the product of and extended into  the love for the whole people self, intertwined in Afrikan’s life fabric of holistic love. Love is nourished by lifelong participation in Afrikan-centred learning, living the Afrikan way and the being part of a progressive organ with shared fabric for ascendancy. The deep and profound self-love and love for one’s people compels the obliteration of unfreedom imposed from whatever foreign source. Holistic love is expressed from the shared spiritual and cultural foundations from which shared values and direction for maximum flourishing are made manifest.

‘The role of spirit in our relationships is to be the driver, to monitor our relationships for the good. Its purpose is to help us to be better people, to bind us in such a way that we maintain our connection, not only with ourselves, but also with the great beyond. Spirit helps us fulfil our own life purpose and maintain our sanity.’

The person is the microcosm extended into the group and so Afrikan relationships of the intimate male and female union are key…Afrikan liberation love at the most deeply rooted levels. Liberation love is indeed the love for liberation a wonderful and essential phenomena of life that the forces of anti-Afrikan agency tremble in fear of and so seek to impose synthetic pseudo-love constructs as a means to deny natural love.

‘Relationships grounded in western conceptions of love do not work for male and female warriors who join forces as compliments. The goals are antithetical to an Afrikan end.’

‘Warrior spirit must be matched with a complementary warrior spirit. Otherwise, failure is inevitable. Both individuals regardless of their personality, dispositions or tendency to openly engage in combat, must (1) know who are enemies are, (2) believe that they are responsible for the ourstorically conscious education and elevation of our children, (3) accept their primary, voluntary, often thankless, role as activists and builders of the global Afrikan community as an honourable, obligatory, priceless privilege, and (4), have a clear, undoubting vision of Afrikan victory over our enemies. Their political base must be common.’

Within the imperative context of organisation the natural flow of Afrikan love is important and where spirits harmonise powerful unions can be established. Hence, infiltration and tactics to thwart naturally progressive unions between harmonising spirits can become damaging interference and energies wasted in the face of inevitability.

‘Everyone had begun to watch the pattern and many people in the movement – men and women – didn’t like it. The men seemed to feel that he belonged to the movement and resented the idea of a woman taking up time he might have spent with them. Many of the women were just plain jealous. When I entered the restaurant every man and woman – old, young, fat, whatever – would offer me a seat to prevent Malcolm and me from sitting together. I would say politely, “No, thank you”, but they weren’t so polite in their replies or in their looks.’

The Afrikan, shaped by and made manifest by the Creator Supreme in liberty and in love has a wonderful responsibility to him or herself to restore divine naturalness. The Afrikan then, now and tomorrow must surely have liberation love, the love for liberation woven into the fabric of life.

‘The love of a people is often confused with the simplified and romanticised reflection of daytime soap operas which is at best an insult to intelligent men, women and children…The collective and individual love of a people must be redefined out of our [fight for liberty] and our traditions.’”

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 In the context of the Maafa the wickedness of the foreign enemy has taken a toll as the uprooted Afrikan coerced into unknowingness. disorganisation, denial of their living spirit, denial of their living culture can be further maltreated by the enemy to turn in on themselves attacking each other and the very fabric of living that energises maximum living. The foreign forces of anti-Afrikan agency attempt to incarcerate the Afrikan in the realms of his synthetic cognitive manipulations and aesthetics paraded as ‘love’. All of this is anathema to the imperative of spiritually and culturally rooted true Afrikan love.

Kwanzaa is a celebration of Afrikan love harvest at its various levels. This is the love that is cultivated throughout the annual cycle from observance to observance. The annual cycle of Afrikan living that nurtures self-love, intimate, collective and otherwise in Ukweli (Truth) and Haki (Righteousness). In this regard, the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation is considered to be an organ for the ascension of Afrikan love for those within its fold.  

Live for Afrikan Self-Love – Celebrate Kwanzaa. 

One Love!!!!

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.

Afrikan World Studies programmes are an important forms of study in understanding the Afrikan experience. There are a range of subjects covered on these programmes including History, Creative Production, Psychology and Religion. To find out more about these learning programmes please click here. For the video promo for these learning programmes click here.

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.