Rite of Passage to Yield a Bountiful Harvest

Afrikan souls have pioneered brilliancy throughout their lives in exceptional ways throughout the ages. The obvious and overt expressions of this are evident their establishment of the greatest and most enduring civilisations ever to exist. An important part of life cultivation is developed from within the rite of passage that is mainstay of Afrikan tradition from the earliest of times. The young Afrikan male child is raised to become an upright Afrikan masculine man and the young Afrikan female child is raised to become a rightful Afrikan feminine woman. Inevitably from such wisdom-guided growth and development comes the harmonious and complementary Afrikan male-female union, familyhood, community and so on. Each party shaped in rightful order of functioning for the ascension of their people.

Unfortunately, with the interruptions and disruptions of the Maafa of recent centuries others that mean the Afrikan ill have sought to set upon the natural norm of self-determined Afrikan life progression in destructive ways. The upright thrust of development traditionally expressed though the Afrikan rite of passage has in many ways been, for many, imposed upon with an alien psuedo-passage into degradation. Here, Afrikan souls have had a number of vices pushed and peddled amongst them that if allowed to fester can cause havoc and devastation. Amongst the barrage of ills are contaminants of ill such as misogyny, misandry, feminism and the thrust for a gynocracy. These alien constructs are of dire disorder. Yet, it is only Afrikan souls themselves that can secure the self from such destructive folly.

Organising for the betterment of Afrikan souls is imperative missioning and Afrikan souls have upheld the duty and responsibility to themselves by doing just that with multitudes of outstanding examples of genuine souls furthering imperative thrust of Afrikan ascension. Indeed, the upright self-determined impetus to be organised for Afrikan souls to build for themselves became for multitudes of souls a rite of passage. So much so that the mantra of ‘Be a part of an existing organ or else form your own’ constantly echoed in the articulations of betterment across generations and consistently from senior representatives of organs proud of their early formation (whether their respective units were active or not).  

In the 1960s the Us organ was newly established and out from its then newness of vision came the exceptional creative restoration process that yielded the wonderful celebration of Kwanzaa.  This powerful observance holds a deeply meaningful symbol set and also has at its core an empowering set of values known as the Nguzo Saba (Seven Principles).

Decades later, organs such as the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation (URAN) embrace the Kwanzaa celebration with all of the magnificent empowerment that it brings. Indeed, it is an important part of the URAN’s cultural observance calendar and features of it utilised in the rites for those within the fold.

In the ongoing and imperative thrust of Afrikan ascension, the upright Afrikan masculine manhood and rightful Afrikan feminine womanhood is there to be realised in continuance of ageless truism. Relations may necessarily be formed anew as the genuinely unworkable is relinquished, yet the mission for rightful order must surely prevail. Surely, the harvest of Afrikan betterment ought to be bountiful. 

Throughout the levels of the self the empowerment there is much empowerment that can be gleaned from the Kwanzaa observance. The levels of the self can be articulated thus: