Marcus Garvey and Ambition

The drive and motivation for continual ascension has throughout the ages for the Afrikan been a thrust for pinnacle excellence. Rooted in their own self-determined way of life The ever-onward and upward traction to build and develop has been steeped in self-knowingness and rightful order. Hence, the world’s greatest and most enduring civilisations came to be.

With the interruptions and disruptions of the Maafa of recent centuries, others that mean the Afrikan ill have sought to derail the Afrikan from the natural fulfilment of upright ambition. This important quality working in the interest of Afrikan souls is precious substance. Only Afrikan souls themselves can keep the ambitions for their own self betterment alive. Only Afrikan souls can engage in the self-determined effort that can allow the ambitions of their own people to fully flourish and to be safeguarded accordingly.

The supreme visionary Marcus Garvey eloquently and insightfully describes ambition thus:

“Ambition is the desire to go forward and improve one’s condition. It is a burning flame that lights up the life of the individual and makes him see himself in another state. To be ambitious is to be great in mind and soul. To want that which is worth while and strive for it. To go on without looking back, reaching that which gives satisfaction”.

This great hero highlights that ambition is of both mind and soul and is thus a wholesome quality of the self that is not exclusively confined to the intellect. Rather, and as with Afrikan life in general, there is also spiritual implication. Upright ambition is an expression of wellness.

Therefore, the alien attempts to crush upright ambition in the Afrikan in thrust for Afrikan betterment  is an attempt (amongst other negatives) to inflict illness.  Indeed, for Afrikan souls themselves to become susceptible to being misused as tool to carry out alien ill-intent by proxy is to inflict collective self-harm.

Steeped in self-knowingness and missioning for spiritual-cultural restoration, the Afrikan is surely best equipped to rightfully express and safeguard upright ambition of the self. Negative tendencies deliberately expressed in the attempt to wilfully bring harm to or destroy upright ambition for the betterment of Afrikan souls surely ought not be allowed to fester. Indeed, the presence of such ill-effort can be a sign that greater traction is needed to purge alien contaminants of ill from Afrikan beingness. Such dire circumstance also points to the imperative to restore self-knowingness and other necessary vehicles for Afrikan ascension.

The inspiration and wisdom guidance of the great Marcus Garvey is surely mission-compelling for Afrikans worldwide. Here, the imperative thrust of independent learning can be energised throughout the levels of the self: