Misconceptions About Kwanzaa: Is Not Kwanzaa and its Values are Merely an Extinct Hobby?

The importance Afrikan people place on their own way of life is naturally at the highest level. This is reflected in the grand outward expression of the world’s greatest and most long-lived civilisations. To put it another way, with this primary people of the world (inherently) comes their own culture. In contemporary time the wonderful observance of Kwanzaa has been established a powerful vehicle for Afrikan cultural restoration and ascension. With all of the joyous celebration the seven-day observance period of Kwanzaa brings it is no fleeting pastime.

According to a popular mainstream platform the word hobby is defined as being:

“an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure“.

There is no doubt that Afrikan people are rightfully filled with the pleasure of joyful self-determined thrust in living their own culture of which Kwanzaa is a tremendous part. This of course is joyfulness emanating from the natural norm of the Afrikan’s own rooted core levels of life. Engaging in the wonderful Afrikan world celebration of Kwanzaa is never close in substance to a tertiary, optional aesthetic, oftentimes fleeting and non-essential pastime or leisure pursuit. Politely put, to even consider a people’s cultural observance at the same level as a hobby is highly erroneous and contemptuous. There are no comparisons to be made in this regard. The Afrikan is not a hobbyist because the Afrikan way is lived.

This then brings into focus the grossly erroneous contention of extinction. According to the popular mainstream source extinction is described as:

“(of a species, family, or other group of animals or plants) having no living members; no longer in existence”

Afrikan culture is the at the essential level of servicing Afrikan life. If there is no culture then can Afrikan people even be living? Well, with the interruptions and disruptions of the Maafa in recent centuries Afrikan people and their culture have been destructively set upon. In this, sheer survival existence or (what could be described as) pseudo-living has ensued for far too many in the resulting crisis of cultural damage and deficit.

Powerfully, Afrikan people have carved out for themselves a seven-day cultural observance time to restore Afrikan culture and rejuvenate Afrikan life into ascension. This is far from being representative of extinction. This is thrust for living that emerged from an initial and modest gathering to a magnificent Afrikan world phenomenon as Afrikan souls throughout the globe naturally reclaimed life. Despite the destructive efforts of others that mean the Afrikan ill, Afrikan people throughout the world chose life not extinction.  

The powerfulness of Afrikan culture is such that Kwanzaa and its values are born of a people’s own way of life represents fullest living. As its people live so too does Kwanzaa. What can be described as being extinct is the false notion that Kwanzaa is merely a hobby for this is a gross misconception. 

To look at this in another way: Kwanzaa is a vehicle that allows the Afrikan to bring out the fabric of Kwanzaa that naturally is already within the Afrikan. Kwanzaa is vehicle to allow the Afrikan to be. Kwanzaa brings out the natural norm of Afrikan cultured ascension. A suggestion that Kwanzaa and its values are merely an extinct hobby is gross misconception.

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.

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