Misconceptions About Kwanzaa: Does Kwanzaa Jeopardise Learning, Work or Social Standing?

Afrikan culture is at the core of optimal life functioning and flourishing for this primary people of the world. As such, it is the self-determined culture of Afrikan souls that is at the core of living in the establishment and thriving of Afrikan family, community, nation and so on. Afrikan people naturally work, learn and hold social worth in  service of family, community, nation and so on. Therefore, Afrikan culture with its values are core and foundational in Afrikan life. Void of Afrikan culture the Afrikan self throughout its various levels as person, harmonious and complementary male-female union, family, community, nation and so on are in functional jeopardy (to put it in polite and understated terms).

According to a popular mainstream platform, the word jeopardise means to:

“put (someone or something) into a situation in which there is a danger of loss, harm, or failure”.

The primary role and functioning for Afrikan souls is in service of their own levels of self. Therefore, life activities such as learning, work or social standing are outward expressions that naturally serve core functioning and beingness in order to ensure that there is no danger of loss, harm or failure of family, community, nation and so on.  

Unfortunately, during the interruptions and disruptions of the Maafa in centuries where Afrikan souls have been hurled into a state of cultural crisis Afrikan life and its core fabric have been destructively set upon.  On the alien plantation or colony Afrikans were denied their natural norm of cultured living Afrikans and were forced to toil in destruction of their own family, community, nation and so on.

The question becomes, if Afrikan people in the now remain in cultural crisis do they continue to toil in destruction of their own family, community, nation and so on? Here, the activities of learning, work and social standing have meaning in the context of the functional self throughout its various levels. Indeed, if the core foundation of life is denied, then have the outwardly expressed activities of learning, work or a person’s social standing become its inadequate synthetic substitute?

Questions such as this are surely only reflective of a dire state of cultural crisis where outwardly expressed activities or standing are misplaced in their position and function within Afrikan life as self-determined culture is denied.

Victoriously, Afrikan people have brilliantly established a vehicle of cultural restoration and ascension for themselves with the wonderful seven-day cultural observance of Kwanzaa. This is a powerful time of Afrikan cultural celebration that is readily accessible to Afrikans wherever located in the world. Empowering Afrikan life, family, community and nation, this is a holiday of phenomenal importance for this primary people that carries deeply meaningful and progressive symbols and the foundational values of the Nguzo Saba (Seven Principles).

Afrikan people then surely have for themselves in Kwanzaa an immensely valuable cultural vehicle to lift the Afrikan family, community, nation and world community away from jeopardy. Necessarily, being of the rooted Afrikan cultural core it provides necessary meaning, value and direction to activities such as learning, work or an Afrikan’s social standing. Here, elements of life can be returned to their rightful place with rightful order restored. The fundamental question surely ought to be: Is Afrikan life and culture in jeopardy? And by extension: Do activities of learning, work or someone’s social standing place Afrikan life and culture in jeopardy? If there are answers to such questions in the affirmative, then Afrikan souls have imperative restorative work to do.

A suggestion that Kwanzaa jeopardises learning, work or social standing in much of present circumstance is beyond misconception it is really an attempt to reverse immediate reality. More aptly in present circumstance for many, are employers, educators, social status establishers attempting to deny or jeopardise Afrikan life and culture? Clearly, the cultural core of Afrikan life is indispensable. It is vital. Whatever else may be compelling, what Afrikan souls rightfully do for themselves at the core level of their own lives is of immense importance. Thankfully, foundational cultural fabric is accessible with the self-determined observance of Kwanzaa. In this, all Afrikan souls throughout world need do is embrace rooted empowerment of themselves.  

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.

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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