Marcus Garvey and What Matters

Afrikan people are. The Afrikan continuum is. Afrikan ascension and security is mission imperative. Steeped in knowingness of self, the Afrikan naturally works in the interest of his own kind and is proud of the victorious self-determined construction that comes to be by grace of the Creator Supreme. The primary, greatest and most enduring civilisations ever to exist are Afrikan civilisations. They did not come to be by happenstance. Rather, the rightfully ordered effort to do on the part of the first people of the world brought them into being.

Despite the efforts of others that mean to the Afrikan ill to destroy or derail Afrikan life’s fullest flourishing, during the Maafa of recent centuries, it is for the Afrikan to restore and secure Afrikan life. Surely, it is only the Afrikan that can restore the knowingness of self and the natural cultivation and building effort of and for the self.

The supreme visionary Marcus Garvey rightfully cautioned Afrikan souls of the reality of conditions in the world. For this great hero self-abandonment through lack of self-knowingness or otherwise is to be safeguarded against. The following wisdom words of deep insight from Marcus Garvey highlight a few of his thoughts on what matters in Afrikan life:

“The world in which we are environed has no patience with any group or set of people who are not sufficiently tuned to the harmony of their own self-protection and accomplishment. It is indeed a waste of time for us to think that other peoples in their organised scheme of things mean in any way to include us in the benefits to be derived…The [Afrikan] must do for himself, and that is why the UNIA has in season and out of season tried to hammer into the heads of each and every [Afrikan] the essential duty of being true to himself, to his [community], to his clan, to his race in all things that humanly matter”.

Matter is a thing of substance and therefore what matters to Afrikan life is the substance of Afrikan life that is of benefit to Afrikan life. Triumphantly, the Afrikan world has the exceptional example of the superlative efforts of the Garvey movement and its outstanding leader to lift a whole people on a global scale. Truly a powerful and grand inheritance for every Afrikan soul to claim and thus act accordingly in rightful order for betterment as best as it is possible to do.

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: