Little Afrika's Everywhere! (Reiterated)

In today’s world money is an important tool. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica:

“Scores, perhaps hundreds of different objects have served as money at one time or another, including such things as slaves, gunpowder and the jawbones of pigs…Money is thought of as having originated out of religious and social custom”.

Even after being forcibly rendered and displaced as ‘objects’ or ‘money’ Afrikan souls in natural self-determined ascension established their own flourishing towns and districts:

“There existed quite a number of [Afrikan] towns across the country and a large number of [Afrikan] ‘main streets’ in many American towns and cities where [Afrikan]-owned businesses and [Afrikan] professionals prospered.

One rather famous [Afrikan] ‘main street’ was Greenwood Avenue, north of Archer…in Tulsa, Oklahoma…Ellsworth describes Tulsa’s [Afrikan] business district and neighbourhood during the first decades of the 1900s:

By the year…1921, the [Afrikan] population had grown to almost 11,000 and the community counted two [Afrikan] schools, Dunbar and Booker T. Washington, one [Afrikan] hospital, and two [Afrikan] newspapers, the Tulsa Star and the Oklahoma Sun. [Afrikan] Tulsa at this time had some thirteen churches and three fraternal lodges….plus two [Afrikan] theatres and a[n Afrikan] public library.

A focal point of the community was the intersection of Greenwood and Archer. This geographical location – a single corner – has had something of a symbolic life of its own in Tulsa for most of the twentieth century, as it has been a key spot of delineation between the city’s [Afrikan] and white worlds”.

Tulsa was known as ‘Little Afrika’. Another example is the town of Rosewood:

“Rosewood, Fla. Was an interesting town, a majority [Afrikan] population. Real people; family pride, friendliness and independent[ly] skilled workers lived here. Demonstrating mutual respect for each other was evident”.

In the UK, in places such as Newport [Afrikans] had established community for themselves in the early 1900s as they etched out a living for themselves:

“around the country’s docklands where a majority of [Afrikans from the] Caribbean and some Afrikan people [directly from the Afrikan continent] worked as sailors, sea merchants and manual labourers”.

In these and many other cases, Afrikan souls were openly attacked by others seeking to destroy self-determined effort with (unlike the multitude of other places) some degree of reparations being 'granted' survivors of the town of Rosewood. Yet, the powerful spirit of ascension in the Afrikan is eternal and continues to empower self-determined building. Afrikans in this time can learn, grow and develop from their experiences and bolster their security in the living fabric of life and in global oneness of self to ensure their continual success for generations to come.

Little Afrika’s can be established wherever the Afrikan is. Or rather, should it become known that there is Little Afrika everywhere Afrikans are?

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.

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. 

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