Misconceptions About Kwanzaa: Is Celebrating Afrikan-Centredness Only Valid on Afrikan Soil?

Afrikan people are Afrikan wherever located in the world. The natural rooted origin and identity of this primary people of the world is not determined by modern political boundaries nor is it determined by modern state citizenship. In contemporary times such circumstances are important to account for in life’s functioning and may also carry positive acknowledgements of identity, origin and locale.  However, a people’s natural identity and root origin are beyond the aesthetic and hold profound depths of rooted life substance and meaning.  For example, Afrikans in the islands may express the term Afrikan-Caribbean or an Afrikan in the Americas may express the term Afrikan-American. Both terms acknowledge natural root origin and identity with the word Afrika which highlights oneness in shared root. So, whether Afrikan souls are in the Americas or the islands their land of origin, history, culture, spirit (amongst other things) are rightfully given meaning and natural upright expression. Steeped in self-knowingness the Afrikan surely journeys through life with optimal levels of pride, dignity, responsibility and dutifulness becoming of such powerful inheritance of identity.  

With the interruptions and disruptions of the Maafa in recent centuries others that mean the Afrikan ill have set upon Afrikan life and culture in destructive ways. Manipulation and baiting tactics have been employed by others that mean the Afrikan ill to coerce the Afrikan outside of self-knowing and progressive living. Unfortunately, unknowing of themselves or otherwise susceptible Afrikan souls may in dire disrupted circumstance succumb to employing such tactics against other Afrikans by proxy of alien forces.

Wonderfully, Afrikan-centred thought and practice has been brought to the fore in the rightful thrust to restore Afrikan souls to their rightful place of optimal and proper functioning in the world. Indeed, to restore rightful importance, duty and responsibilities Afrikan souls have to themselves in the  building and in the ascension of their lives. In brilliancy, Afrikan souls have been self-defining and have described their upright and purpose-filled effort in this regard through a number of terms. One such term is Africentricity.  

Even a mainstream source highlights the term’s importance and meaning to Afrikan souls as it:

“Places Afrikan people "in the centre of analysis of Afrikan phenomena" . It emphasizes the centrality of Afrikan interests, values and perspectives”.

As with all terms that are determined by Afrikan people, knowingness is crucial for through misuse and bogus deflections damage can be caused. Therefore, Africentricity is not a guise for the perpetuation of alien contaminate ills such as misandry or misogyny. Nor is it a vice to attempt demonise upright Afrikan life order and the establishment of wholesome familyhood. Nor is it a vice to attempt to pit Afrikan souls against each other for selfish personal gain. Any such attempts to cause destruction would surely have the forces of anti-Afrikan agency rubbing their hands with glee.  

For this primary people to hold knowingness of their centrality and importance in the world wherever located is surely vital.

The wonderful observance of Kwanzaa is an Afrikan celebration for this people of centrality. The imperative restoration and elevation of the Afrikan self throughout its various levels: Afrikan person self, the harmonious and complementary Afrikan male-femle union, the Afrikan family, the Afrikan community, the Afrikan nation and so on are empowered, energised and celebrated during such marvellous observance periods. Kwanzaa is a powerful cultural time in the restoration of Afrikan-centredness where this people energise self-determined thrust to re-establish their rightful place in this world. This is a season where  Afrikan-centredness can be celebrated throughout the Afrikan world community.  Rightful order must surely prevail wherever the Afrikan is in the world. A suggestion that celebrating Afrikan-centredness is only valid on Afrikan soil is a gross misconception, for Afrikans can (and surely ought to) celebrate themselves wherever they are, whether on the great continent itself or outside.

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.