Marcus Garvey on Disruption and the Real

Afrikan souls have excelled in ascension of the world’s greatest and most enduring civilisations by their own hands throughout the ages. This has been possible because this primary and spirit people of creation functioned in reality of what is. This is a people that harnessed their superlative abilities and genius flow from the rootedness of self-determined spiritual and cultural fabric to ascend to pinnacle heights – unmatched by others. Afrikans steeped in living self-knowingness built stupendously for their own fullest flourishing. This is a people who hold the natural norm of rightful order as fundamental and optimally rise accordingly. This is a people of the real.

With the interruptions and disruptions of the Maafa of recent centuries, Afrikan souls have be set upon by alien forces of anti-Afrikan agency in a barrage of intensively destructive ways. Alien ill-imposition has been a vehicle for the skewing of the natural order of Afrikan self-determined reality.

Despite being imposed upon, Afrikan must surely not wallow in a state of perpetual under-footed victimhood as though that it is to be normalised as the only state of existence that is to be applied to this primary people. No, Afrikan people even if interrupted have a duty and responsibility to themselves to restore self-knowingness in the best ways possible and lift themselves accordingly. Victorious ascension can only come through the self-determined effort of Afrikan souls themselves. Therefore, the period of the Maafa is to be known but it is far from being representative of the total experience of Afrikan souls. It is a recent period of interruption and disruption. It hold’s lessons including the safeguarding application of, ‘Never Again!’. But it does not hold the experience of Afrikan self-determined and optimal flourishing. Thus, learning for self-knowingness must surely be wholesome and far-reaching beyond catastrophic imposition. In this, there are challenges to face.  

The supreme visionary Marcus Garvey insightfully and eloquently describes the interrupted state and presents a mission-compelling challenge for this soul people of the world:

“For the last four hundred years the [Afrikan] has been in the position of being commanded as the lower animals are controlled. Our race has been without a will; without a purpose of its own, for all this length of time. Because of that we have developed few men who are able to understand the strenuousness of the age in which we live.

Where can we find in this race of our real men. Man of character; men of purpose, men of confidence, men of faith, men who really know themselves? I have come across so many weaklings who profess to be leaders, and in the test I have found the slaves of [another] class. They perform the will of their masters without question”.  

Surely, the Afrikan must rise to face and be victorious in the challenges that have come to be. Steeped in wholesome self-knowingness triumph can be the reality shaped by Afrikan hands. Grand Afrikan civilisation must be.

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: