Misconceptions About Kwanzaa: Should Afrikan People Not Participate in Their Own Cultural Holiday Because They Have to Adhere to (or Pretend to Adhere to) Various Religions

Afrikan culture has always been fundamental to Afrikan life for life’s fullest flourishing. Indeed, a people’s culture is a natural foundational imperative and people live according to their own self-cultivated way as a core pat of the living journey. This is especially important to the primary people of creation and the bringers of civilisation to the world. For Afrikan souls to deny or cast aside their own culture is to deny core substance of their own living self. Could there ever be a survival strategy for rightful and fully flourishing Afrikan souls to deny their own culture? Such a question presents stark contradiction, for Afrikan culture is vital for fully flourishing Afrikan life.  

According to a popular mainstream platform the word survive means to:

“continue to live or exist, especially in spite of danger or hardship”.

This, in relation to any Afrikan cultural deficit, would surely not relate to any continuance of the Afrikan natural optimal living norm but would lean toward a description of sheer existence (at best). In cultural crisis such as that imposed by others that mean the Afrikan ill during the Maafa of recent centuries the ability to functionally deal with danger or hardship is severely hampered (or worse) void of the natural norm of rooted Afrikan cultured living.

There is surely something very wrong if there is a ‘religion’ that seeks to deny Afrikan people their own culture.  For this to be true, such a ‘religion’ (or its agents) could have a thrust dictating that Afrikans are better off stripped of their own way of life and that the religious dictates of others are best for the Afrikan. Of course, this would put others that determine the ‘religious’ thrust at a distinct advantage as religious proprietors over Afrikan life. Such a thrust compounded with amplified ill-intent could surely render disastrous outcomes (to put it in a polite way). If this thrust were further compounded with a ‘religious’ doctrine that only that which comes from itself is always universally valid across all peoples, then what would be the expected outcome? If vulnerable or susceptible Afrikan souls become adherents to such a thrust to the point of denigrating or destroying their own culture, then what would be the expected outcome? Even a cursory glimpse at the Afrikan experience highlights some clear answers in this regard. Here, popularity being present does not mean universal. Thus, whether the Afrikan is participates in a religious form or not Afrikan cultural restoration is always needed where there is Afrikan cultural deficit in Afrikan life.  

Victoriously, Afrikan people organised themselves amidst the chaos and disorder and established the wonderful cultural observance of Kwanzaa.  This grand seven-day celebration period together with its core values of the Nguzo Saba (Seven Principles) have been beautifully restored for ready access throughout the Afrikan world community. Such a thrust allows Afrikan souls the vehicle to re-establish their vital rooted cultural foundations and ascend beyond sheer survival (or worse). Afrikans surely ought to reclaim and never deny or cast aside their own way of life whatever ploys may be afoot. With the marvellous establishment of Kwanzaa, Afrikan souls have their own powerful vehicle of cultural restoration and ascension. Truly, a vital and victorious blessing to embrace. A suggestion that Afrikan people should not participate in their own cultural holiday because of having to adhere to (or having to pretend to adhere to) one of the variety of modern religions and nothing else in order to survive surely brings question of the validity of that religion in Afrikan life rather than whether Afrikan culture is valid for its own people. Afrikan culture has always been valid and rooted substance that is core to Afrikan life and pinnacle civilisation.  Bogus claims of self-benefit to Afrikan souls in denial of their own way of life is a 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.

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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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