Shared Culture of Oneness- Here, There and Elsewhere: What of Culture Fit and Fitness?

The word fit holds a number of meanings. It can mean that something is best suited for purpose. It can mean that someone is in good physical shape. It can also describe the action of putting something into place. Sometimes – in an informal sense – it may also used as a term to highlight a person’s clothing. Given these various uses, if one were to apply the word fit in relation to Afrikan culture then a whole subject for discourse and engagement may arise.

Certainly, it is a natural and eternal truism that authentic Afrikan culture (creatively restored or otherwise) is best suited for Afrikan souls to live and optimally flourish from. It can also be stated that to be culture fit the Afrikan holds knowingness of and lives an authentic Afrikan cultured life to a level that puts the Afrikan in good cultural shape. Additionally, the word fit when applied to Afrikan culture can also mean that it has been formulated or put in place with upright self-determined effort for ready accessibility by Afrikan souls here, there or elsewhere.

In defining the term culture fit, a contemporary mainstream source offers the following detail as it relates to the specific arena of enterprise:

“Culture fit refers to how compatible employees are with a company's culture, goals, and values. Candidates who are a good cultural fit possess essential hard and soft skills that complement other people in the company. Culture fit also means that an individual embodies the company's mission and core values”.

Even though this sourced detail has its focus upon a specific functional area, it can still be of use to bring about meaning for being culture fit in terms of a whole people – specifically Afrikan people and their particular experience. As such, it is deemed apt to adapt and expand upon this sourced detail with results that may look something like the following:

“Afrikan culture fit refers to how well Afrikan souls embrace their authentic Afrikan culture (whether creatively restored or otherwise). The natural and harmonious fit Afrikan souls have to their culture obviously services their fullest flourishing and security. At the same time, steeped in knowingness of themselves, this soul people can also realise that they certainly do not fit into pseudo-identities nor pseudo-cultures intended to derail, fragment or destroy Afrikan life and its natural core oneness of being here, there and elsewhere that their authentic culture (creatively restored or otherwise) empowers.  Afrikan culture fit also means that the Afrikan soul embodies the imperative thrust for continual Afrikan ascension of rightful order whether here, there or elsewhere. Indeed, it can be said that such embodiment is a statement of Afrikan culture fitness”.

Unfortunately, in a state of interruption and disruption where the Afrikan may be destructively set upon by others that mean the Afrikan ill, authentic Afrikan cultural fitness may be a target for attempted elimination.

Despite any ill intent, it is Afrikan souls that surely must ask of themselves are they culture fit in relation to authentic Afrikan culture (creatively restored or otherwise)? Of course, it is also this soul people who must provide themselves with upright answers of progression through their self-determined effort. Indeed, only the Afrikan can establish and make use of their self-determined establishments of learning and development that provide appropriate culture fitness classes – for example.  

Thankfully, with emergence of the exceptional examples of restored authentic Afrikan culture such as the Nguzo Saba and the Kwanzaa observance from which it comes, Afrikan souls here, there and elsewhere have ready access to fabric from which their cultural fitness of shared oneness can be realised. 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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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.

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