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

With the vast array of the types of intelligence that Afrikan souls have exemplified throughout the ages, high cultural intelligence surely formed a part of the fundamental core of life. Of course, given that the words culture and civilisation are synonymous here, such intelligence is of civilised being. That is to say, high cultural intelligence is intelligence of high civilisation.

In the modern era, however, it may be argued that cultural intelligence relates only to some discourse between cultures that differ. A contemporary mainstream source offers the following detail:

“Cultural intelligence refers to the skill to relate and work effectively in culturally diverse situations. It's the capability to cross boundaries and prosper in multiple cultures”.

In the unfortunate context of interruption and disruption, Afrikan souls may be destructively set upon to derail them from their own highly cultured normality or even rendered totally void of self-determined culture full stop. In such dire circumstance cultural intelligence - even if used as a way to describe discourse between different cultures - puts the Afrikan at a deficit with any attempt of discourse coming from a position of being imposed upon with pseudo-culture, cultural deficiency or cultural nullification. To put it another way, cultural dialogue – if it is even necessary with others - is stunted if the Afrikan is rendered void of their civilised norm in the first place.  

Here then, what surely ought to be of principle and more exclusive in focus for the Afrikan is the discourse that Afrikan souls have amongst themselves to restore their highly cultured way of life in service of their optimal ascension, flourishing and security. This can certainly be actioned and applied to Afrikan life whether located here, there or elsewhere. Accordingly, it is deemed apt to adapt the sourced detail on cultural intelligence to focus specifically on the Afrikan experience. The result may look something like the following:

“Afrikan cultural intelligence refers to the skill Afrikan souls hold to recover, restore, creatively restore and create anew amongst themselves their own highly cultured norms of shared oneness given diverse locations and conditions throughout the Afrikan world. It is the capability of Afrikans to cross geographical or political boundaries and prosper as a whole people – here, there and elsewhere. An outstanding example of such intelligence is brought to the fore with the establishment and ready accessibility of the Nguzo Saba and the cultural observance period of Kwanzaa from which it comes”.  

As the unique, bountiful and extensive journeying of Afrikan souls proudly attests, Afrikan souls naturally hold superlative levels of cultural intelligence. It ought not ever be forgotten that it is the primary people of creation that brought forth culture (civilisation) in the first place. Indeed, it is this soul people that – having brought civilisation (culture) to light – then established its greatest and most enduring examples. The level of their cultural intelligence in so doing naturally had to reflect the excellence of outcome. There are surely empowering lessons in this for the Afrikan in the now and the self-determined approach this people surely ought to have to the cultural restoration and engagement necessary for their fullest flourishing and security. 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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