Kwanzaa – Recommitment to Our Highest Ideals

In bringing the magnificent first people of creation into existence in their rightful place of centrality within the sacred universe, the Creator Supreme also empowered the Afrikan with superlative gift of life’s expression. Afrika, the bountiful birthplace and cradle civilisation are descriptions for this marvellous people who cultivated and expressed life in their own wonderful spiritual and cultural way. It is this that gave rise to the most glorious and long-lasting civilisations that the world has ever come to know. The Ultimate Divine has always been pinnacle in Afrikan life and as such the highest ideals of living are expressed. The virtues of Maat: Ukweli (Truth), Jaji (Justice), Haki (Righteousness), Kubadilishana (Reciprocity), Usawa (Balance), Maelewano (Harmony), Ili (Order), became the brilliant fabric for continual divine ascension. With the beautiful all-year-round fabric of life energised from observance to observance in the marvellous Afrikan calendar cycle, Kwanzaa is a wonderful time of celebrating the glorious yield. Maat is detailed thus:

Fadhila Saba za Maat (Seven Virtues of Maat)

Ukweli (Truth)  

For Afrikan people to have living knowingness of the truth of the Creator Supreme, the truth of the Great Ancestors, the truth of the Afrikan experience in the world (past, present and future), the truth of enemy forces, the truth that Afrikan people must attain, maintain and safeguard their liberty and be self-governing, the truth of ‘Afrika for the Afrikans’ – those at home and those abroad’.

Jaji (Justice)

For Afrikan people to command maximum and genuine respect for their divine selves and in the living of their own spiritual and cultural way. To preserve and defend the Afrikan whole self.  To exercise divine justice in the imperative mission for Afrikan ascendancy and in the natural sacred right of self-governing nationhood. To safeguard and protect Afrikan life and the Afrikan way. To ensure that justice prevails and no alien force infiltrates Afrikan life nor otherwise perpetrates crimes against Afrikan souls.

Haki (Righteousness)

For Afrikan souls to be morally upright by living their Afrikan spiritual and cultural way. To uphold, defend and protect Afrikan righteous order throughout Afrikan life – person, family, community, nation and race. To ensure that alien unrighteousness does not impose itself upon Afrikan life – person, family, community, nation or race.

Kubadilishana (Reciprocity)

For Afrikan divine substance to be expressed for the good of ascension, one Afrikan to the next, in the imperative mission for global Afrikan ascendancy. Goodness is forever rewarded through the guiding light of the Creator Supreme. Alien wrong doers set to impose ill, thwart or destroy Afrikan ascendancy create their own open doorway to receive what they do not desire in return.

Usawa (Balance)

For Afrikan people to live their optimal state of balance in divine harmony and in natural centrality of the sacred universe. To be steeped in the knowingness of the divine self and live life accordingly. To know that any alien imposition of unfreedom in whatever grotesque form is acute and dire imbalance and must be thoroughly repudiated. Righteous efforts in service of the eternal thrust for global Afrikan ascendancy are expressions of balanced behaviour. Unrighteous and coerced energies haemorrhaged in service of foreign enemy forces (tantamount to self-destruction) is unbalanced behaviour.

Maelewano (Harmony)

For Afrikan souls to have harmony of self and to live in the oneness of peace with each other and in their rightful divine position of harmony in the sacred universe. To safeguard Afrikan souls from the ills of alien disfunction and disharmony.

Ili (Order)

For Afrikan souls throughout the world to assert their natural divine imperative to be organised for global Afrikan ascendancy. Righteous order must prevail.

Recommitment to these virtues, the imperative Garveyite thrust of Mungu Moja (One Creator), Lengo Moja (One Aim), Dira Moja (One Destiny), the Nguzo Saba (Seven principles) and all the facets of organised and beautiful Afrikan spiritual and cultural living throughout the annual cycle become a tremendous harvest of victory celebrated during Kwanzaa.  Recommitment to Our Highest Ideals is one of the five fundamental activities of this First Fruits celebration. 

Sacred verse from the Afrikan wisdom tradition articulates guidance from Orunmila (deity of wisdom knowledge and utterance) in articulating the imperative to safeguard the Afrikan highest ideals from foreign enemy onslaught and to ascend in victorious oneness in the way of rightness.

Usishindwe Kamwe (Never Succumb)

Let us never close our eyes and succumb to the enemy,
They will never genuinely mourn for us.
Let us never walk unsteadily and stumble for enemy satisfaction,
They will never genuinely express concern.
Bad things come, even if you count on only one of them.
But the Afrikan nation self-determined, steadfast and strong will never succumb
This is the teaching of Afrikan wisdom for Orunmila
Whilst he worked for his people to ensure that they would never succumb
For he knew that the only true friend to the Afrikan soul was another Afrikan soul of Haki (Righteousness)
The advice to exhalt the Afrikan way was heard and complied with for victory.

Orunmila is the forever living force of wisdom.
If the Afrikans mourn they mourn for themselves.
If the Afrikans fast they fast for themselves.
The only true friends of the Afrikan are Afrikans themselves.

The Adinkrahene symbol is a powerful symbol of the highest ideals for Afrikan living. It represents grand divine monarchy and this is certainly befitting expression of substance for the magnificent Afrikan people of the world. Indeed, a royal Afrikan nation manifest.  

Within the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation our highest ideals are energised in harmonious continuity. Here, observances are not distinct or discrete pieces of time cut off from each other. Rather, the oneness of Afrikan living flows in constancy of elevation from Kwanzaa through to Omowale Malcolm X Kukumbuko – from Afrika Ukombozi Siku through to  Musa Msimu – from Afrika Historia Msimu through to Kimungu Madhabahuni, from Yemanja Siku to Ujamaa Kiburi SIku and so on.  Year-round and year-on-year the cycles of Afrikan ascension are of progressive substance nurturing, grooming and shaping Afrikan life in glorious might. This certainly, provides the Kwanzaa observance with much by way of victorious progression to celebrate.

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.

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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.

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