Marcus Garvey and Not Giving Up What Is Yours

It would be nonsensical to conceive of Afrikan souls living their natural norm of self-determined, self-governed life, that they would willingly relinquish what is of core value to them to others. Surely, the world’s greatest and most enduring civilisations that this primary people brought into being could never had existed were this the case. No, the natural norm of Afrikan self-determined living comes with retention and safeguarding that which is of core value.

Of course, during the Maafa of recent centuries others that mean the Afrikan ill have sought to manipulate, coerce and forcibly strip the Afrikan of core valuables (material and otherwise). As a result, Afrikan souls have necessarily engaged in processes of reclamation, restoration, recovery and rebuilding and building.  As such, it is surely vital that what is reclaimed, restored, recovered, rebuilt or built is not frivolously relinquished but safeguarded.

The supreme visionary Marcus Garvey with profound depth of insight eloquently articulates it this way:

“Let me say frankly that no man gives away that which is of vital value to him. As of the individual, so of the race and so of the nation. If the [Afrikan] desires anything worth while he must not expect to get it from anybody else but himself. Some of us have been depending upon all kinds of political ‘isms’ to bring economic, social and political relief. This is a fallacy. The people who organise and create these various economic and political ‘isms’ do so only in their own interest, and when they are fighting for achievement they are willing to use every possible unit of help to win the victory. Not that after the victory they will share up equally with the units they have used, but only use them for the convenience of a victory”.

At the core level of life, are Afrikan souls to restore cultural values and fabric only to relinquish it and adopt an alien ‘scism’ as a substitute? Such a question is a nonsensical in the now as it would have been in classical times of Afrikan self-determined grandeur. The nonsensicalness can only be compounded if time is expended pondering an answer.  

The Afrikan need not weep because Afrikan culture has been stripped by the hands of others and is therefore non-existent. Through the magnificent self-determined effort of Afrikan souls themselves and inspired by the likes of Marcus Garvey the core values of the Nguzo Saba (Seven Principles) have been restored and made readily accessible to Afrikan souls throughout the world via the wonderful observance of Kwanzaa. It would surely be at best of disservice to themselves for Afrikan souls to relinquish their own cultural values and replace it with an alien ‘ism’.

Restored Afrikan culture is precious and is there to be lived and necessarily safeguarded from the preying claws of foreign anti-Afrikan agency. Dare the Afrikan relinquish that which is of core value!

In addition to cultural core of the Nguzo Saba (Seven Principles) is the harmonising spiritual formulation of ASBWOK (Afrikan Spirituality By Way Of Kwanzaa). Here, the various levels of the self can be energised for optimal functioning. The implication of relinquishing such a formulation is to in some way discard a core avenue of self-energising. Indeed, it could be in some way be considered as akin to throwing away the Afrikan self.

No, the Afrikan self throughout its various levels is to be maximally energised for fullest ascension. Here, what is aptly relinquished are the alien contaminant ills of destruction. The levels of the self can be highlighted as: