Securing the History of Self: What of Counterfactual History?

Speculation regarding what may or may not have been the consequence of a particular historical occurrence can have its analytical uses in relation to Afrikan ilfe. Sometimes such discussions are conceptualised in mythological articulations and their provision of life lessons. Other times analysis can be realised through reasoning around what might have been to gain insight on the impact a historical occurrence has had. For example, one may ask the question: what if Afrikan life was bereft of interruption, disruption and interference by the hand of others meaning the Afrikan ill across recent centuries? This could lead to the important inquiry as to what the natural norms of optimally flourishing Afrikan life was like prior to any imposed disruption. Thus, the impact of the damage caused by disruption can be assessed in relation to where projected and continual Afrikan thriving would be had destructive interjection not occurred.  

According to a contemporary mainstream source, the term counterfactual history attracts the following meaning:

“Counterfactual history is a form of historiography that attempts to answer the What if? questions that arise from counterfactual conditions. Counterfactual history seeks by "conjecturing on what did not happen, or what might have happened, in order to understand what did happen."

Of course, care has to taken with an approach such as this, especially in a state of existence where misinformation and miseducation can run rampant. If a counterfactual history of sorts is pushed and peddled by others that mean the Afrikan ill as being historical reality then articulations of would-be history may be reduced to being fallacious anti-Afrikan propaganda.

It is therefore, vital that any counterfactual history and associated analysis is determined by Afrikan souls themselves having restored a level of self-knowingness with some sense of understanding their actual historical realities. Any such restoration can only be brought into being through the efforts this primary people of creation in service of their natural norm of continual ascension and security.  

Here then, the duty and responsibility this soul people surely have for themselves in self-determined effort of their learning and development becomes clear. In this, any  what if’s of civilisation being constructed in the now and in time to come by the hands of these souls can be transformed into actual outcomes. After all, civilisation is not of happenstance.

Afrikan Historia Msimu is an observance period for the duration of the tenth month of the year (so-called October). This is a special time for learning, growth and development of the Afrikan experience in the world. It is a time of spiritual and cultural elevation as Afrikan history is restored to fabric of life in the living knowingness of the then, the now and tomorrow. Great ones of the Afrikan journey are highlighted and the symbols relevant to the time invigorate life in the imperative onward flow of global Afrikan ascendancy.  This wonderful observance is a part of the cultural calendar of the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation (URAN).

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