Marcus Garvey and the Knowing of Self Throughout the Afrikan Continuum

Afrikan people throughout the world share a natural oneness through their continuum. The Afrikan continuum is by far the longest and most richly endowed of all humanity. It takes self-knowingness on the part of Afrikan souls themselves to engage in their own self-empowering continuum for life’s fullest, ordered and upright expression.

With the interruptions and disruptions of the Maafa of recent centuries, others that mean the Afrikan ill have sought to sever the Afrikan from the natural norm of self-knowingness and deny the fullest extent of the greatest continuum on the human plateau.

Despite this, it is only Afrikan souls themselves that can restore the knowingness of self that yields optimal and grand empowerment from their own eternal continuum. In this, self-determined effort to learn about their Afrikan experience in the world is key. In knowing of the self in the then, informs the knowingness of the self in the now and thus the chart an upward and onward path of self-knowingness throughout the generations to come.

The supreme visionary Marcus Garvey, with profound depth of insight articulates the following:

“The [Afrikan] or otherwise the Black man should fully realise by now the game of everybody who seems to be doing well as races, groups in society, and individuals, to play him for a convenient fool. Common experiences reveals the fact that whenever anybody is doing well he doesn’t want to be a[n Afrikan]nor to be associated or identified in any way with the [Afrikan], as there is a general belief that to be a[n Afrikan] is inferior. It is only when misfortune and distress overtake them that they are willing to compromise themselves by being friendly to [Afrikans] and very anxious to be associated with them with the hope of getting their assistance to recover their lost grounds. As a fact it is difficult to tell by such behaviour who is a[n Afrikan] and who is not, but the [Afrikan] should not be foolish enough as not to know himself. He is surely not an Anglo Saxon, a Mongolian, a Teuton or a Latin in race but an Afrikan. The [Afrikan] cannot get away from his Afrikan blood and the Afrikan blood is as good as any other and historically superior to the rest, because it is the oldest blood of civilisation”.

For the Afrikan to be unknowing of themselves is to deny their rightful expression of grand civilisation. Surely the Afrikan cannot be perpetually hoodwinked into denial of who and what they are for the ill-convenience of others. If the Afrikan succumbs to the miseducation and other wranglings of the forces of anti-Afrikan agency self-knowingness can be bogusly cast to periphery. Here, the Afrikan is in danger of latching onto the vices intentionally peddled by alien forces to do everything else but know thyself. Indeed, in such a vulnerable state the Afrikan may act in self-defeat and come up with all manner of excuses to avoid the life fundamental of restoring some level of knowing the self.

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: