Marcus Garvey and What Others May Say

Words of truism, words of wisdom and upright guidance, words that energise self-determined civilisation construction have always been a welcome and important part of Afrikan life. Indeed, the words of praise that Afrikan souls bestow upon each other that help to secure their continual ascension and eternity  are essential punctuation to the ultimate praise words for the Creator Supreme.

There is no interruption, nor disruption imposed by others on Afrikan life such as that of the Maafa of recent centuries that the Afrikan of rightful order cannot victoriously rise from. If the Afrikan restores self-knowingness and empowers the self with living knowingness of the Ultimate Divine, then the path of victorious ascension surely has a firm course. Rather than succumb to the disorder and self-denigrating regression of attempting to destructively compete on the basis of who can sling the most degrading insults, surely the opposite directive will yield victorious build.

The supreme visionary Marcus Garvey rightfully challenged the Afrikan to the upright order of ‘sober righteousness’ from whatever station, level or role. In exquisite and beautifully constructed prose this great hero articulates the following:

O! When the [Afrikan] makes himself a man,
The wicked world will see a new parade!
The Blacks will march in one tremendous clan -
A great phalanx of noble fighting braves,
The day that Afrika awakes, in deed,
And Black men cease to dream away the time,
The scoffing tribes of other men will heed
The race’s claim of sober righteousness
It's then for you to think and act today,
And show of what good mettle you are made
It's not what other men may do and say,
But just how game you are to win the stake.

The responsibility is with the sober and righteous soul to express words and carry out deeds for the building of Afrikan civilisation into fullest flourishing. What others may do and say of negative disorder, chaos and falsehood ought to be treated as such. This is a time for the language of forthright construction that will endure into the eternity to come. Here, the imperative thrust for the restoration of self-knowingness is key.  

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: