Remember Your Own History !

The Afrikan history continuum is the longest and most richly endowed continuum of any people. The history of Afrikan souls naturally consists of the self-determined and self-beneficial efforts Afrikan souls carve, shape and express for themselves. From generation to generation, Afrikan souls naturally built upon the history that they made in the yesteryears, they continued to make history in the present unfolding of any given lifespan and projected and empowered their generations to come with the mantle of future history making ability and projection. Throughout all the levels of the Afrikan self history empowered, made and projected. Thus naturally, then, now and tomorrow the Afrikan person self is vitally empowered by, is making and is future-projecting history. The harmonious and complementary Afrikan male-female union is vitally empowered by, is making and is future-projecting history. The Afrikan family is vitally empowered by, is making and is future-projecting history. The Afrikan nation is vitally empowered by, is making and is future-projecting history and so on. It is from this self-determined thrust that constitutes the Afrikan history continuum that is replete with the greatest and most long-lived civilisations that the world has ever known.

With the interruptions and disruptions of the Maafa of recent centuries alien forces of ill have set upon the Afrikan in a barrage of destructive ways. Denial of the knowingness of self-determined and self-beneficial grand experiences and achievements of Afrikan souls has been one of the boons to the alien forces of ill.

The great hero Omowale Malcolm X insightfully highlights the modern institutionalised thrust where Afrikan knowingness of self can be denied:

“The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America [and elsewhere] fail more so than any other thing, is your and my lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else. There are [Afrikan] people in America who have mastered the mathematical sciences – have become experts and professors in physics... they are experts in that field. There are [Afrikan] people who have mastered the field of medicine. We have [Afrikan] men who have mastered other fields. But very seldom do we have [Afrikan] men in America who have mastered the history of the [Afrikan] man himself. We have experts, we have those among our people who are experts in every field. But seldom can you find one from among us who is an expert on the history of the [Afrikan] man. And because of his lack of knowledge concerning the history of the [Afrikan] man, no matter how much he excels in these other sciences, he is always confined. He is always relegated to the same low rung of the ladder that the genus of our people are relegated to. And all of this stems from his lack of knowledge concerning history”.

The person self void of memory is at a huge deficit. If such a condition were to be amplified throughout the Afrikan world, whether on the Afrikan continent, in the Americas, in the Islands, in Europe or wherever, what is the result? A people void of their own collective memory! A people void of their own history continuum! A people unable to walk in their natural upright dignity of continual ascension! A people unable to remember who and what they are! Disfunction at best!

The great hero Omowale Malcolm X highlights institutionalised unknowing thus:

“You and I can come out of Harvard and don’t know our history….He’s a graduate from Harvard or Columbia, or Yale or Howard or Tuskegee who doesn’t know his history. And because he doesn’t know his history he’s confined, he’s limited. He’s held under the control and the jurisdiction of the white man who knows more about the history of the [Afrikan] than the [Afrikan] knows about himself”.

Whatever tools or skills the Afrikan may consider compelling to extract from such institutions, self-knowingness and the vital restoration of collective memory is something that Afrikans souls must do for themselves (wherever located in the world). No Afrikan ought to be content with a memory-less existence. The Afrikan person self must naturally have memory. The harmonious and complementary union must have memory. The Afrikan family must naturally have memory. The Afrikan community must naturally have memory. The Afrikan nation must naturally have memory. The Afrikan world community must naturally have memory.

The wisdom-filled reminder Omowale Malcolm X shared with Afrikan souls rings true:

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