Spirit of Omowale Malcolm X All-Year-Round: Afrika Ukombozi Siku

The Creator Supreme has blessed the Afrikan to live sacred life in holistic oneness in centrality of the sacred universe. As such the spiritual and cultural observances of the Afrikan calendar cycle reflect that oneness. In this, observances are spirit energisers and enliveners for all-year-round living. These vital times of year do not confine spirit but rather nurture, groom and shape Afrikan souls to fully flourish with each observance highlighting its special focus. From observance to observance holistic living and oneness of spirit becomes ever more deeply manifest. The important observance of Omowale Malcolm X Kukumbuko of the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation energises spirit with its special focus on Heru, Ogun as manifest in Omowale through remembrance. The spirit of this great hero flows throughout the annual cycle, an example of which, is the wonderful observance of Afrika Ukombozi Siku (Afrika Liberation Day (ALD)).

From the important text: From Afruika to Afrika Ukombozi Siku – The Living Observance of Afrika Liberation Day the following highlights the emergence of Afrika Liberation Day (ALD):

“Charged with the forthright spirit of Afrikan liberty and self-governance the Afrikan country of Ghana was declared independent with the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah. It soon became clear that the isolated declaration of independence for a single Afrikan country could only be a beginning. Liberty was to be realised throughout the continent and indeed the Afrikan world at large. The spirit of oneness gathered momentum and was soon to be vocalised by the first premier of independent Ghana.

                ‘While the independence celebrations were still going on, Nkrumah announced his intention of summoning a meeting of the self-governing states of Afrika, which actually met in Accra’.

This initial meeting began on April 15th 1958 and lasted for a spiritually and culturally in-tune seven day period. It was out of this gathering that the foundations of what was to become Afrika Liberation Day emerged in the assertion of Afrikan Freedom Day.

                ‘At the conference of independent Afrikan States in Accra, Ghana on April 15, 1958, which was hosted by Prime Minister Osageyfo Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana. Those attending the conference represented the governments of the first Afrikan nations to gain independence in Afrika, The Conference delegates passed a resolution declaring April 15th Afrikan Freedom Day (AFD).’”

Kwame Nkrumah who was profoundly inspired by the great Marcus Garvey stated upon Afrikan soil in that same year:

“It has warned us that so many of our brothers from across the seas are with us. We take their presence here as a manifestation of the keen interest in our [fight] for a free Afrika. We must never forget that they are a part of us.

These sons and daughters of Afrika were taken away from our shores, and despite all the centuries which have separated us, they have not forgotten their ancestral links. Many of them made no small contribution to the cause of Afrikan freedom.  A name that springs immediately to mind in this connection is Marcus Garvey. Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for Afrikan national and racial equality”.

 A year later, Afrikan Freedom Day was celebrated with ingathering in the diaspora. This year, so-called 1959, saw another Afrikan soul intimately of the  Garvey tradition at the celebration of Afrikan Freedom Day deliver a keynote message. This Afrikan was none other than the great hero Omowale Malcolm X who said in part:

 “How could so few white people rule so many Black people? This is the thing you should want to know. How could so few? The white man today will tell you that thousands of years ago the Black man[/woman] in Afrika was living in palaces. The Black man[/woman] in Afrika was wearing silk. The Black man[/woman] in Afrika was cooking and seasoning his[/her] food. The Black man[/woman] in Afrika had mastered the arts and sciences. He [/she] knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn’t flat”.

“Then if the Black man[/woman] in Afrika had reached such a high state of civilisation so long ago, at a time when the people of Europe were crawling on their all-fours, what happened to make these people or enable these people to come out the caves and come down into our civilisation and take it over and hitch us to the plough. What happened? How did they do it? These are the things you should want to find out before you say, ‘Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!’”.

Again, from the important text: From Afruika to Afrika Ukombozi SIku – The Living Observance of Afrika Liberation Day, it can be seen how Afrika Liberation Day came to be:

“By 1963 (so-called), the thrust of Afrikan ascendancy had gathered such progressive momentum that Afrikan nations were compelled to come together for unified effort. The progressive leaders of Afrikan mulitudes met in the Afrikan country never to have been colonised by the enemy to formally establish unification. In Addis Ababa of Ethiopia on 25th May 1963 the Organisation of Afrikan Unity was formed.

‘On May 25, 1963, 31 independent Afrikan countries met to form the Organisation of Afrikan Unity (OAU). At this historic meeting the delegates changed Afrikan Freedom Day into Afrikan Liberation Day and chose May 25th as the new date for the observance’”.

“Malcolm sent a letter to an unknown Afrikan delegate of the OAU Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Stating that if the OAU needed recruits to aid Afrikan revolutionaries fighting to liberate the Congo, he could guarantee 10,000 recruits in Harlem. This was not mere rhetoric. Not only did he recruit Afrikans in the U.S. but he also began secretly meeting with Afrikan leaders and Cuban revolutionaries like Che Guevara to organise a continental Afrikan army for service in the Congo. At the time the letter was written, the Congolese War was a controversial issue. Europeans relinquished control of the country in 1960, when Belgium granted the Congo independence rather than partake in a costly and no-win war. However, the CIA-backed Moise Tshombe then invited western assistance in the wake of a bloody civil war. In September 1964, when Malcolm’s letter promising Harlem recruits surfaced, the west was trying to retake the Congo. Malcolm’s letter was also important for its symbolic value. He advocated, since first going abroad in April 1964, that the problem of the Afrikan in the [Diaspora] was the problem of the Afrikan in the homeland. However, now he was suggesting that the [fight] was reciprocal – that the [fight] of the continent was the problem of the Afrikan in [the diaspora]. Thus, whether Malcolm could guarantee recruits or not, the die had been cast: Pan-Afrikanism was being rooted in a way that would have made Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association proud”.

“Malcom spent eighteen weeks in Afrika on his return visit. During his two visits, he met and discussed his politics with various Afrikan heads of state including: President Gamal Nasser of Egypt, Prime Minister Milton Obote of Uganda, Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya. President Nnamdi Azikwe of Nigeria, and President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana. The State Department seemed extremely interested in Malcolm’s activities for not only political reasons but also economic reasons. Analysts and researchers of Malcolm’s 1964 travels have often omitted the fact that he constantly promoted his U.N. campaign among Afrikan countries with vast mineral and/or human resources”.

Omowale Malcolm X went further with his plans on the establishment of the OAAU. He intented to formally institutionalise the connection with Afrikans in the diaspora with the Afrikans in Afrika.

“The OAAU potentially was like few other organisations of the day. It was patterned after the “letter and spirit” of the Organisation of Afrikan Unity (OAU). Its long-range plan was to become a member of body”.

The implications of this is immense. For the Afrikan in the diaspora would have seated representation on the progressive independent Afrikan collective body. Afrikan oneness was to be formalised in a powerful way.

Omowale Malcolm X, exceptional hero articulated it this way:

“We have to have the type of understanding of Afrika and the type of understanding of our people here in order to build a bridge, a line of communication between the two. And once the lines of communication have been established and our Afrikan brothers can stretch forth their hands and reach us. And we can stretch forth our hands and reach them – why, there’s nothing that the blue-eyed man in this country will be able to do to you and me successfully from that day onward.”

The physical sunrise of Omowale Malcolm X is May 19th of the year so-called 1925. Therefore, the time of his physical coming forth coincides with time that celebrates what Omowale Malcolm X lived to realise – the victorious mission for the attainment and maintenance of Afrikan liberty. Certainly, in the month of so-called May within the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation, the observance  times of Omowale Malcom Siku (Day) and Afrika Ukombozi Siku (Afrika Liberation Day) are manifest. This is a wonderful time to energise and enliven the spirit of the essential Afrikan liberator and the imperative process of liberation respectively.

“May, the month of Malcolm, is also the month of Afrikan Liberation Day (ALD), established May 25, 1963 at the founding of the Organisation of Afrikan Unity…It was declared as a day of reflection and rallying, remembrance and recommitment, discussion, fundraising, planning and reaffirming, in countless ways, the awesome responsibility to free Afrika as a continent and world community, harness our human material resources, empower the masses of our people and return to the stage of human history as a self-conscious and powerful force for good in the world”.

In the approach to Omowale Malcolm X Kukumbuko, learning can become a progressive and purposeful mission. Time taken to learn can go a long way. Learn of Afrikan progressive mission and live Afrikan progressive mission is the becoming of vital Afrikan acumen.

Throughout the annual cycle of the spiritual and cultural calendar of the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation observance to observance, Afrikan life is endowed with the essential of living knowingness. For the Afrikan souls, being a part of an organ for mission ascendancy is key. The Universal Royal Afrikan Nation is a spiritually and culturally rooted organ for Afrikan ascension.

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 Omowale Malcolm X Kukumbuko, the text: From Ajar to Omowale – The Spiritual & Garveyite Journey of Malcolm X by this author is available to purchase online here. The trailer for this important text can be found online here. This publication provides detail on the life and example of this great hero. You can also visit the institution of Yemanja 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 institution to enrol, consult, learn, gather or otherwise.

Also, visit www.u-ran.org for links to Afrikan liberation Love radio programme on Universal Royal Afrikan Radio online.