Remember Who You Are!

Afrikan people have naturally held self-knowingness from the earliest of times. Also, this primary people brought forth human language and communication and rightfully determined identifiers for themselves. For example, the word Afrika comes from the ancient Afrikan word Afruika meaning ‘birthplace’. It is a compound word with a number of elements one of which is the Ka one of the nine parts or the soul meaning the ‘spark of divine intelligence’. Hence, amongst other reasons why Afrika here is spelt with a ‘k’ rather than the anglicised version that is popularly presented with a ‘c’. This powerful word is a powerful identifier of oneness that relates to land of origin, history, heritage, culture and spirit (amongst much else). The Afrikan person self is empowered by embracing the knowingness of self. The harmonious and complementary Afrikan male-female union is empowered by embracing the knowingness of self. The Afrikan family is empowered by embracing the knowingness of self. The Afrikan community is empowered by embracing the knowingness of self. The Afrikan nation is empowered by embracing the knowingness of self. Thus, the greatest and most enduring of world civilisations that are the result of Afrikan self-determined effort have come to be.  

With the interruption to the Afrikan continuum of recent centuries, Afrikan identity and self-knowing has been set upon in destructive ways by others that mean the Afrikan ill.

As such, the great hero Omowale Malcolm X forthrightly challenged Afrikan souls to remember themselves with the fundamental question, ’Who are you?’. He then confronts his people with the upfront query, ‘You don’t know?’. For such important questions to be raised speaks to both the disturbance in the Afrikan continuum and the responsibility Afrikan souls have to themselves and to rightfully restore their own identity and self-knowing. This great hero, of course, energises Afrikan souls with the truism:

“We are Afrikan!”

Adopting the pseudo-identity of others as a substitute to natural knowingness will surely not yield optimal ascension for Afrikan souls wherever in the world they are located. Take for example, the island of Britain and how it was named. According a popular mainstream source:  

“The name Britain is derived from the name Britannia, used by the Romans from circa 55 BC and increasingly used to describe the island which had formerly been known as insula Albionum, the ‘island of the Albions’”.

Another popular mainstream source defines the word Albion as an:

“Ancient Gallo-Latin name for Britain, Albiōn (Middle Welsh Albbu, Old Irish Albu), is from Proto-Celtic *Albiū, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós (“white”), whence also Latin albus  (“white”) and Ancient Greek ἀλφός (alphós, “whiteness, white leprosy”)”.

In the example of America, another popular mainstream source describes origins of its name as follows:

“Cristopher Columbus thought that he had found a shortcut to Asia when he reached terra firma in the Caribbean in 1492, but 10 years later Amerigo Vespucci realized the lands in question constituted a New World, at least for Europeans. As a result, the bulk of the Western Hemisphere was named in Vespucci’s honor. Originally, the name America was used to refer only to the southern portion of the landmass, but in time the designation was applied to the whole of the New World”.

The meaning of this forename is defined thus:

Amerigo is pronounced as 'a-meh-REE-go'. The name Amerigo is the medieval Italian form of the Germanic name Emmerich, which is composed of the word elements 'ric', meaning 'ruler'.

And the meaning of this surname is defined as being:

“From vespa (“wasp”)”.

Are Afrikan souls to consider themselves in identity terms as being the perpetual subjects of the symbolic meaning brought forth by others? Whether of Roman domination or ‘whiteness’ in Europe or the legacy of ‘rulership’ via those who carried names meaning (for example) a ‘venomous insect’ as they invaded and conquered in the Americas – surely Afrikan identity must be determined by Afrikan souls themselves and reflect their own natural beingness and experience wherever they are in the world. Identity for the Afrikan surely ought to be whole and encompass land of origin, history, heritage, culture, spirit amongst other things wherever in the world they are located.      

To remember the self is natural and normal functioning for maximal ascension. As the great hero Omowale Malcolm X states:

“Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research”.

The Universal Royal Afrikan Nation (URAN) is an organ that is rooted in spiritual and cultural fabric for the imperative the mission of global Afrikan ascendancy. Throughout its annual observance calendar cycle URAN energises active knowingness in and from the core spirit levels of Afrikan beingness. 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.

Afrikan World Studies programmes are an important forms of study in understanding the Afrikan experience. There are a range of subjects covered on these programmes including History, Creative Production, Psychology and Religion. To find out more about these learning programmes please click here. For the video promo for these learning programmes click here.

The important text: From Ajar to Omowale – The Spiritual & Garveyite Journey of Malcolm X by this author is available to purchase online here. The trailer for this important text can be found online here. This publication provides detail on the life and example of this great hero. 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.