Shared Culture of Oneness- Here, There and Elsewhere: What of Authentic Cultural Empowerment and an Unnatural Oppositional Category?

Naturally authentic Afrikan culture (creatively restored or otherwise) is determined to be by Afrikan souls to empower Afrikan life. Or, to put it another way, authentic civilised living (creatively restored or otherwise) is determined to be by Afrikan souls to empower Afrika life. Void of their authentic culture, Afrikan souls are at a dire deficit to state the least. If the Afrikan is without their natural core cultural substance of empowerment, then the grotesque and unnatural state of cultural disempowerment may prevail.

According to contemporary mainstream source, the term cultural empowerment attracts the following detail:

“Cultural empowerment refers to the process of individuals or communities gaining the necessary tools, resources, and knowledge to assert their cultural identity and make informed decisions”.

To bring focus to the Afrikan experience such sourced detail can be usefully adapted. In so doing, the result may look something like the following:

“Authentic Afrikan cultural empowerment refers to the self-determined process of Afrikan souls here, there and elsewhere gaining the necessary tools, resources and knowledge to assert their authentic cultural identity and make informed decisions in service of their fullest flourishing and security”.

Unfortunately, in a state of interruption and disruption where Afrikan souls may be subject to acute levels of destructive imposition by others that mean the Afrikan ill, the natural norm of authentic cultured living and the cultural empowerment it naturally produces may begin to erroneously seem like it is abnormal. Instead – and twistedly so – cultural disempowerment amongst soul people may begin to look as though it is the ‘norm’ both to those that impose such vile existence and to some of the set upon Afrikan souls. Additionally, the concoction, pushing and peddling of pseudo-identities, pseudo-cultural fabric and the like can compound disempowerment or worse.

The following description of disempowerment from another mainstream source, highlights a number of important points:

“When you don't have a strong sense of self, you might feel directionless or overly critical of yourself. A strong sense of self may be connected to your belief in yourself, or rooted in your upbringing. People who lack a strong sense of self may have experienced adverse or traumatic events”.

Again, to bring focus specifically upon the Afrikan experience, adaptation of this sourced detail is considered apt. Something like the following may be the result:

“When the Afrikan souls do not have a strong sense of their authentic Afrikan selves here, there and elsewhere, they might end up being consumed by acute levels of self-critique to the point of stagnation or damage. They may also erroneously assume an outlook of being directionless. With a strong sense of their authentic Afrikan selves rooted authentic cultivation (creatively restored or otherwise) can take place throughout the various stages of Afrikan life. This can facilitate necessary and strengthening levels of belief in their authentic self wherever located. For this people to lack a strong sense of their authentic Afrikan self, they have experienced extreme, protracted and deeply damaging adverse or traumatic events imposed upon them”.  

Fortunately, Afrikan souls have creatively restored authentic Afrikan cultural fabric at the shared level of oneness that is readily accessible to Afrikan souls here, there and elsewhere. The Nguzo Saba and the observance of Kwanzaa from which it comes are tremendous examples of this. Authentic Afrikan cultural empowerment can – and surely must – be realised amongst soul people and cultural disempowerment avoided. After all, civilisation is not of happenstance.  

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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