Marcus Garvey and Pressure

There are many challenges the Afrikan has faced in the natural norm of self-governing nationhood. The thrust of self-determined ascension with its unending pursuit of excellence brings with it a number of challenges from problem-solving in the effort to build, to the deployment of effective nation defence. Certainly, the Afrikan proved throughout the ages to be overwhelmingly victorious in facing such challenge for it was this primary people that established the greatest and most enduring civilisations ever to exist.

Challenges in the ascension of Afrikan life are to be expected. However, the onslaught of the Maafa of recent centuries imposed upon the Afrikan circumstances in which levels of challenge far beyond the natural norm of Afrikan life were to be faced. See, the state of interruption is not a time to deny or avoid the necessary challenges to be faced in order to bring about continual Afrikan ascension. Rather, in a state of disruption there is greater thrust required commensurate with the circumstance not less.

The supreme visionary Marcus Garvey, with deep insight articulated the following:  

“When we see the pressure under which the average man of our civilisation must live, and the care that he must take for the preservation of his life and that of his racial posterity, we can find no justification for being quiet or indifferent, but to the contrary, every reason for continuously knocking at the door of the sleeping [Afrikan], to awaken him to his true sense of duty. Be assured, my friends, if the [Afrikan] is to live, if he is to fulfil the mission of a man, if he is to share in the glory of human prowess, then he must shake off the inertia, the deadness, the slowness of the past and look up with vigilance, with faith and determination, to the doing of those things that are worthy of the consciousness creature of God”.  

The awakening of a ‘true sense of duty’ is something that can rightfully blossom through the restoration of self-knowingness. This is both natural and essential to do. Though it can be a challenge in alien circumstances of ill where attempts to derail or deny the restoration of self-knowingness with a barrage of mis-education can rear its ugly head. Yet, the rise to the challenge of self-determined learning and development for self-betterment the Afrikan surely must. In the words of the great hero Marcus Garvey:

“Educate! Educate! Educate!”    

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: