Lessons for Necessary Movement of Rightful Order: What of Independent Learning?

  • By kwende ukaidi
  • 03 Aug, 2025

Celebrating the Great Marcus Garvey and His Movement

How can Afrikan souls truly be an independent and thriving people void of necessary levels of independent learning?  If confined to and totally consumed by the ill-vices of miseducation and other forms of anti-Afrikan propaganda then this soul people will surely be shackled to less-than optimal outcomes at best. With the establishment and engagement in independent learning at appropriate and relevant levels in service of their continual and independent ascension, the fullest flourishing of Afrikan souls here, there and elsewhere can surely be realised.

According to mainstream sources:

“Independent learning means taking responsibility for one's own education and actively managing the learning process”.

It goes on to state that:

“Independent learners take charge of their educational journey, deciding what, when, and how they learn”.

If one were to take these sourced details and adapt them to reflect the Afrikan experience, the outcome may look something like the following:

“Independent Afrikan learning is a self-determined endeavour in which Afrikan souls take responsibility for their own education in service of their fullest flourishing and security here, there and elsewhere. It involves this people actively managing their learning process and deciding what, when and how they learn for the upright, constructive and continual betterment of their lives”.

If others that mean the Afrikan ill had it their way then miseducation and other forms of anti-Afrikan propaganda would probably be all-consuming to point where susceptible souls could be misguided into open denial of their Afrikan-ness and their natural upright duties and responsibilities to self.  Such a posture may represent an acutely oppositional category to the rightful thrust for the independence of Afrikan people and instead present an example of a castrating dependency.

The great hero Marcus Garvey with deep insight and wisdom eloquently articulates the following to Afrikan souls:

“It is by education that we become prepared for our duties and responsibilities in life. If one is badly educated he must naturally fail in the proper assumption and practice of his duties and responsibilities”.

He goes on to state that the Afrikan:  

“fails in the proper assumption of his duties and responsibilities because he has been badly educated”.

If ‘badly educated’ souls may become susceptible to becoming self-destructive agents by proxy.  Wilfully destructive acts of deceit and deception may ensue. Perpetrators may engage in gossip-mongering and the spreading of falsehoods intended to bring harm to souls encouraging or facilitating rightful independent Afrikan learning. Perpetrators may also actively attempt to sabotage, discourage or divert souls that would otherwise uprightly learn from participation. Petty jealousies, negative egos and the like may be amongst the motiving factors for such dire disorder.

Afrikan souls can – and surely must – exercise their duty and responsibility to themselves here, there and elsewhere with establishment and engagement in relevant levels of self-determined independent education in service of their continual ascension of rightful order. After all, civilisation is not of happenstance.

The observance of Musa Msimu takes place during the month of so-called August and is a wonderful time to celebrate the mighty example of Marcus Garvey and the Movement that he created led in order for future generations of Afrikans to have their guide for complete freedom and nationhood. Musa Msimu is a part of the Afrikan Cultural calendar of the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation (URAN).

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.

The important book entitled: From Musa to Afrikan Fundamentalism – The Afrikan Spiritual Essence of Marcus Garvey is available to purchase online here. The book trailer can be accessed by clicking here.

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