Land, Resource of Self and Other Natural Resources: What of Plantation and Colony ‘Economies’?

Afrikan land to Afrikan people is naturally and inextricably interwoven into their spiritual-cultural way of being. It is from their highly cultured norm from which economic functioning is expressed. Thus, a functioning Afrikan economy is a normal part of flourishing Afrikan life’s fabric. One may state that Afrikan economic math (Afrikan land + Resource of Self and Other Natural Resources = Functional Afrikan Economy), is simply an aspect of self-determined cultured living expressed.

However, with interruption and disruption where others that mean the Afrikan ill impose themselves in highly destructive ways, alien forms of ‘economy’ may be the result. Two examples of this are the plantation ‘economy’ and the colony ‘economy’.

According to one mainstream source, the ‘plantation economy’ is described in the following way:  

“an economic system based on the ownership of land on which staple crops were raised on a large scale for domestic and international sale, typically by enslaved labourers.

"the Atlantic trade was based fundamentally on the plantation system and slavery"”.

In order to express this detail from the worldview and experience of the Afrikan alteration is considered apt. As such, the following may be expressed:

“Plantation ‘economy’ is a pseudo-economic and parasitic system based on the invasion, theft and expropriation of land and resources. Enslaved Afrikan souls were exploited for their labour and genius flow on a massive scale to raise vast amounts of crops for domestic and international sale for centuries in the generation of super-profit for others. The misnomer of ‘trade’ has been peddled to erroneously legitimise (at the level of propaganda) particularly what may be described as the Atlantic phase of the Maafa”.  

Another mainstream source offers the following detail in relation to the ‘colony economy’:

“It describes how colonialists introduced export-oriented economies focused on raw materials and imported manufactured goods. The key sectors included agriculture (peasant farming, plantations, settler farms), mining, and infrastructure to support transportation and trade”.

Again, alteration to this detail is considered apt to reflect the Afrikan worldview and experience. Thus, the following may be stated:

“Colony ‘economy’ describes how colonialists forcibly imposed export-oriented parasitic pseudo-economies focused on the extraction of raw materials by committing brutal acts of genocide and torture upon Afrikan souls. Then, flooding the captive and set upon populous with imported manufactured goods to generate super-profit. The key sectors of imposition were in the areas of agriculture (where polite-sounding terms such as peasant farming, plantations, settler farms are used as descriptors to mask vile reality), mining, and infrastructure to support transportation of seized materials and inhumane trading exploits”.

From whatever locale, station, level or status Afrikan souls can – and surely must – recover and restore knowingness of themselves, their experience and worldview. In so doing, this primary people of creation can take steps to safeguard themselves from ill imposition – economic and otherwise – and build for the benefit of themselves accordingly. After all, civilisation is not of happenstance.

Ujamaa Kiburi Siku is a wonderful part of the spiritual-cultural observance calendar of the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation. It takes place in the first week of June marking the time of significant occurrence both on the continent of Afrika and in the diaspora concerning Afrikan economy. Ujamaa Kiburi Siku as with the other observances on the Afrikan cultural calendar is just that – an observance. Therefore, wherever the Afrikan is whether at home, at a community gathering or elsewhere it can be observed.

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