Shared Culture of Oneness- Here, There and Elsewhere: What of Cultural Images?

If Afrikan souls are steeped in their norm of self-determined and highly cultured living, then the cultural images they produce, express and utilise naturally reflect the authentic substance of their way of life to empower their fullest flourishing and security.  

Yet, if imposed upon with interruptions and disruptions by the hands of others that mean the Afrikan ill, Afrikan life, culture and its images can become grotesquely skewed to state the least. Indeed, in conditions of disorder, expressed imagery can assume the guise of self-destructive forms and promote devastation amongst this primary people of creation. Bolstering the attempts to nullify authentic Afrikan culture (creatively restored or otherwise) and its empowering images, can be the pushing and peddling of ill-tools such as that of pseudo-identity, pseudo cultural fabric and the like.

According to a contemporary mainstream source, cultural images consist of:  

“Visual representations or symbols that embody the ideas, values, and practices of a particular society or group, often reflecting their beliefs, traditions, and experiences”.

This same source goes on to state that:

“Cultural images play a vital role in shaping our understanding of different societies, influencing everything from fashion to art”.

To bring focus specifically upon the Afrikan experience, it is considered apt to engage the thrust of adaptation concerning the sourced detail. The results of alteration, may look something like the following:

“Afrikan cultural images naturally expressed from authentic Afrikan culture (creatively restored or otherwise) can consist of: visual representations or symbols that embody the ideas, values and practices of Afrikan people in service of their fullest flourishing and security. Of course, Afrikan cultural images can also reflect the authentic beliefs, traditions and experiences of this soul people. Afrikan cultural images are naturally self-determined and can play a vital role in fullest realisation of shared core oneness that Afrikan souls naturally hold amongst themselves here, there and elsewhere. Further, Such images can be of pervasive empowerment throughout the panorama of Afrikan cultural expression at the aesthetic - yet deeply meaningful - level”.

Surely, Afrikan souls have a responsibility and duty to themselves to bring about the fullest use of their upright, constructive and progressively empowering cultural imagery. Without a doubt Afrikan cultural imagery requires its authentic Afrikan cultural substance. Thus, the primary port-of-call for the Afrikan is surely to return authentic cultured living (creatively restored or otherwise) to their lives.

Thankfully, at the shared level of oneness authentic Afrikan cultured fabric has been creatively restored with the exceptional and highly accessible examples of the Nguzo Saba and the observance of Kwanzaa from which it comes. With this, Afrikan souls can embrace authentic Afrikan cultural fabric whether they are geographically located here, there or elsewhere and bring forth their cultural images of ascension accordingly. 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.

In his capacity as an Afrikan-centred spiritual cultural practitioner this author is available for further learning in this regard and also for the carrying out of ceremonies such as naming and name reclamation. For details please click here.

Afrikan World Studies programmes are an important forms of study in understanding the Afrikan experience. There are a range of subjects covered on these programmes including History, Creative Production, Psychology and Religion. To find out more about these learning programmes please click here. For the video promo for these learning programmes click here.

Also, in the approach to the important cultural observance of Kwanzaa, the text: From Pert-En-Min to Kwanzaa - A Kuumba (Creative) Restoration of Sacred First Fruits by this author is available to purchase online here. This publication provides informative detail on the of the Kwanzaa celebration. You can also visit the institution of Yemanja -O to pick up a copy.

At nominal cost, also consider acquisition of an a4 laminate poster of articulations by this author when visiting the Yemanja-O establishment to enrol, consult, learn, gather or otherwise