Misconceptions About Kwanzaa: Is Not Kwanzaa Just Simply Unnecessary?

Since the beginning the marvellous primary people of the world have necessarily lived a cultured life. For this Afrikan people cultured living is accurately qualified with the word highest for this people expressed life with the rooted order that gave rise the world’s greatest and most long-lived civilisations. Nowhere in their natural living norm have Afrikan people deemed their own culture as anything less than their foundational core of life. Such a proposition would be nonsensical for Afrikan souls having ushered culture into the world and with it cultivated themselves to pinnacle heights of living. Far from being unnecessary culture to Afrikan people is vital core substance of life.

According to a popular mainstream platform the word unnecessary means:

“not needed”.

In their natural state of their own self-governing norm Afrikan souls determined that which was not need in their own best interests. Certainly, disorder, chaos and disfunction are elements that were not required throughout the ages of their flourishing nations. In the now however, with the Maafa of recent centuries multitudes of Afrikan souls have been hurled into a world of disorder, chaos and disfunction outside of their natural self-determined norm.

Amidst dire cultural crisis Afrikan souls brilliantly brought forth the wonderful observance of Kwanzaa with its core value system of the Nguzo Saba. With such a powerful vehicle of cultural restoration and elevation Afrikan souls determined for themselves that disorder, chaos and disfunction through cultural disruption (as always) is absolutely not required. Their own culture, on the other hand, most certainly is.

To highlight its importance, the author A.T. Browder insightfully articulates:

“Culture is often summed up in one word - civilisation”.

In a state of Afrikan cultural interruption it could be said that the various avenues of life expression are uncultured if rooted cultured living is at a deficit. For example, uncultured learning, uncultured teaching, uncultured leading, uncultured parenting, uncultured relationships and on and on. Yet, given the description that culture is civilisation then applying the polar opposite of civilised would yield: uncivilised learning, uncivilised teaching, uncivilised leading, uncivilised parenting, uncivilised relationships and so on.

In contemporary times, the word ‘culture’ can be peddled on such an informal aesthetic basis that the rooted core of  a people’s own way of life can be falsely considered merely superfluous  or as being a fanciful option (at best).  However, given the above articulation, cultured living is civilised living and surely no Afrikan soul in rightfulness of mind would wish to embrace being uncivilised.

A powerful vehicle of Afrikan cultural restoration and ascension accessible to the entire Afrikan world community would surely be a great and vital phenomenon in Afrikan life. Wonderfully, such a vehicle is with the Afrikan in the grand cultural observance of Kwanzaa. A suggestion that Kwanzaa is unnecessary is a gross misconception. Rather, Kwanzaa is a vital celebration energising the Afrikan to discard any unnecessary chaos, disorder and disfunction of uncultured living. To discard Afrikan culture is to discard the best of rooted Afrikan living. 

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.

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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.

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