Shared Culture of Oneness- Here, There and Elsewhere: What of Authentic Shared Core Culture?

There is definite difference between what might be considered as core authentic culture (creatively restored or otherwise) in the lives of Afrikan souls; and that which might be considered as its outward cultural expressions. Core authentic Afrikan culture holds the values, wisdom traditions and other life-informing foundational life substance. It is from a rooted, authentic and wholesome core that outward cultural aesthetics such as artful design, poetic utterance and the like play their natural role as vehicles of self-beneficial expression for the fullest flourishing and security of this primary people of creation whether located here, there or elsewhere.

According to a contemporary mainstream source:

“Core culture is made up of the intangible values and ethos that define…cultural framework. Observable culture is the external reflection of this cultural perspective”.

Unfortunately, in a state of interruption and disruption, where Afrikan souls may be destructively set upon by others that mean the Afrikan ill, authentic shared Afrikan core culture can suffer acutely. On the one hand its very existence may be intentionally denied through vices such as miseducation and other forms of anti-Afrikan propaganda. On the other hand, cultural expressions of a readily accessible artful and popularised nature may be misrepresented as being ‘the culture’ at the core level, when in fact they are naturally the outward aesthetic articulations of whatever core cultural substance holds true. Of course, if others that mean the Afrikan ill can render the authentic core null and concoct pseudo-cultural fabric as some sort of substitute, then the outward expressions naturally reflect the faux base.  

Afrikan souls can surely do themselves a great service in safeguarding themselves from pseudo-identities, pseudo-cultural fabric and the like. Indeed, it is an ageless truism that soul people not only have a core authentic culture, but also one that is shared between themselves at that level wherever they happen to be geographically located.

Another mainstream source, offers the following detail:

“Shared culture refers to the collective beliefs, values, customs, and practices that are common among a group of people”.

With necessary self-determined, learning, development and restoration, Afrikan souls can eradicate questioning such as, ‘What is the culture of the Afrikan located here? What is the culture of the Afrikan located there? What is the culture of the Afrikan located elsewhere? And ‘Do Afrikan souls throughout various locations have any culture in common?’. Rather, the Afrikan steeped in knowingness of self can rightfully assert, ‘Afrikans here, there and elsewhere have their shared core authentic cultural substance’.

Brilliantly, through Afrikan self-determined effort of creative restoration, such an assertion has an authentic vehicle of ready accessibility and engagement with the Nguzo Saba and the observance of Kwanzaa from which it comes. With this, Afrikan souls throughout the Afrikan world community can demonstrate unto themselves that they have shared authentic core cultural substance and empower themselves through practice accordingly.  After all, civilisation is not of happenstance.