Misconceptions About Kwanzaa: Does Kwanzaa Curb Progressive Learning, Growth and Development?

Afrikan people are superlative learners and thus naturally carry the superlative teacher or wisdom guiding qualities to empower their lives for fullest flourishing. Afrikan culture naturally drives Afrikan souls to grow and develop themselves optimally with its inherent thrust to glean and convey Ukweli (Truth).  In this, learning and teaching are expressions of cultured living. With their natural norm of such rootedness Afrikan souls are able to determine their own functional body of knowledge from which the greatest of world civilisations have come and have been maintained for the longest periods of time.

With the interruption and disruption of the Maafa across recent centuries, Afrikan people and culture has been destructively set upon. Thus, their own cultured expression of learning and teaching has been subject to alien ills.

Not naturally a people to wallow in self-pity and flagrant attitudes of ‘can’t do’, Afrikan souls brilliantly organised themselves and brought to the fore a process for their own cultural restoration. The wonderful observance of Kwanzaa came about through the brilliancy of such effort which necessarily required a titanic effort of self-determined learning, growth and development. In turn, Kwanzaa then allows Afrikan people of the world to restore their own cultural fabric in their lives and thus effectively have a base from which to express the cultured activities of learning, teaching and so.

According to a popular mainstream platform the word learning means:

“the acquisition of knowledge or skills through study, experience, or being taught”.

In relation to Kwanzaa, learning can be explicitly about the celebration period itself. Certainly, in circumstance where such learning fills a primary and fundamental cultural void in Afrikan life, this is vital. Knowing about the powerful and deeply meaningful symbols of Kwanzaa, its empowering practices and bringing forth the skills of life implementation are all of immense value and importance.

Kwanzaa can also be a time where learning about other and general aspects of the Afrikan experience in the world is also celebrated. In this, the focus of learning the lessons from past experiences in great accomplishments or in times when things did not go so well – so that life in the now can ascend effectively from the now and into the future. Of course, the Afrikan continuum is not a disconnected past and such study includes analysis of current circumstance and future projections.

With the restoration cultural grounding that can be accessed through Kwanzaa both learning and teaching can be restored to their rightful places of cultured expression. Indeed, the role of teacher is explicitly stated its principle of Imani (Faith) with all of the progressively cultured implications that brings.

If Afrikan souls of the world are compelled to acquire skills or learning to eek out a living for themselves via foreign institutions then their cultural fabric is not a garment to be discarded. Rather, self-determined culture is part of Afrikan beingness for rightfully rooted Afrikan living whatever the sphere of life. Kwanzaa is a magnificent vehicle of empowering growth, development and learning.

A suggestion that Kwanzaa curbs progressive growth, development and learning is a gross misconception for this wonderful observance empowers Afrikan souls to learn, grow and develop in self-beneficial ways as Afrikan family, community, nation and world community rises to fullest flourishing.  

Kwanzaa is one of the essential cultural observances of life within the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation. The Universal Royal Afrikan Nation (URAN) is an Afrikan-centred spiritual and cultural mission for ascendancy that embodies living spiritually and culturally rooted life. To find out more about URAN and its spiritual-cultural mission for liberty and nationhood click here. The exquisite URAN pendant can be obtained online by clicking here.

In his capacity as an Afrikan-centred spiritual cultural practitioner this author is available for further learning in this regard and also for the carrying out of ceremonies such as naming and name reclamation. For details please click here.

Afrikan World Studies programmes are an important forms of study in understanding the Afrikan experience. There are a range of subjects covered on these programmes including History, Creative Production, Psychology and Religion. To find out more about these learning programmes please click here. For the video promo for these learning programmes click here.

Also, in the approach to the important cultural observance of Kwanzaa, the text: From Pert-En-Min to Kwanzaa - A Kuumba (Creative) Restoration of Sacred First Fruits by this author is available to purchase online here. This publication provides informative detail on the of the Kwanzaa celebration. You can also visit the institution of Yemanja to pick up a copy.

At nominal cost, also consider acquisition of an a4 laminate poster of articulations by this author when visiting the Yemanja institution to enrol, consult, learn, gather or otherwise.

Also, visit www.u-ran.org for links to Afrikan liberation Love radio programme on Universal Royal Afrikan Radio online