Marcus Garvey and Media

Self-determined Afrikan vehicles of media and communication are vital avenues that can empower self-knowingness, the reality of circumstance and conditions and also help to propel the Afrikan to greatest ascension. Reporting on what has been or what is present or what is to come can become a powerful tool of rising. Of course, the substance and intentions of those who are at the helm of communicated reports can have a tremendous impact on the what, when, why and how things are stated. Of course, in a state of the natural norm of self-governing nationhood, the Afrikan establishes organs and vehicle of information deployment to energise Afrikan rising and security throughout the various levels of the self. Whether through formal learning or via the leisurely glance at a literary work, reporting for ascension is key.

With the interruptions and disruptions of the Maafa of recent centuries, others that mean the Afrikan ill have sought to destroy wholesome Afrikan self-determined media and impose a barrage of anti-Afrikan propaganda via various means. Yet, it is Afrikan souls themselves who have the sole responsibility of sharing wholesome information about themselves in furtherance of their natural ascension. Through the control of their own media forms and steeped in mission of the restoration of  self-knowingness, victorious and continual building can be energised into fullest reality.

The supreme visionary Marcus Garvey, warned Afrikan souls of challenges posed by others with his unending dedication to realise the triumphant rise of this primary people of the world:

“The [Afrikan] as a reader of his own newspaper must learn to appreciate the difficulty of gathering genuine news. A general survey of news relayed to the [Afrikan] press from different people has revealed that most of it is what can be considered coined or manufactured by some supposed foreign newspaper agent who is more interested in getting the particular point of view over to suit either his own personal interest or some one who is paying him to do so, refusing at the same time to take into consideration the effect the said news may have upon the people in the community in which it is read”.

It was no happenstance, that this great hero utilised his journalistic skills and his oratorical prowess to lift his people. The Garvey newspaper and magazines where an enormous boon to Afrikan life throughout the world.

In this time, with the advent of such vehicles as cyberspace with its social media and the like, there is much by way of anti-Afrikan noise generated by others that mean the Afrikan ill directly or by proxy. Surely the Afrikan must make best efforts in the genuine restoration of the knowingness of self in order to create and deploy information of self and to empower the self. To establish and deploy self-denigrating and self-destructive propaganda can leave a dire deficit (at best) meanwhile, alien forces of ill rub their hands with glee at the prospect of self-perpetuated debris-causing propaganda.

Can Afrikans lift themselves with wholesome media messages of rightful order? Surely the Afrikan must if the imperative of victorious and pinnacle civilisation is to be brought into fullest fruition.    

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: