The Cowry Shell of Afrikan Economic Pride

For the magnificent first people of Creation who are naturally and supremely Creator-endowed with the pinnacle wealth of humanity, symbols of wealth and prosperity are important spiritual and cultural facets. One of the many symbols of Afrika is the cowry shell. This natural phenomenon comes from marine life of the great continent and is utilised in the life of the marvellous spirit people in profound and deeply meaningful ways. To the Afrikan, the cowry shell is a powerful symbol of affluence, power and wealth. It is a symbol of divinity and is utilised as currency as well as in sacred practice. Indeed, monetary exchange is not absolved from sacredness as goods and services are exchanged with a symbol of divine enlivening energy. Highlighting the pinnacle empowerment of interwovenness of economy with spiritual and cultural living, the cowry shell or its image is exquisitely woven into material of garments, beautifully adorns as an accessory and so on.  These ever-present reminders and energisers of the imperative responsibility and commitment to Afrikan self-governing economy are enshrined in divinity. The Kiswahili word for money is Fedha.

The wickedness of the most horrific disorder ever to disgrace the annals of world experience has been unleashed by foreign enemy forces upon the Afrikan over the recent centuries of the Maafa. The bloodthirsty thieving barbarian pirate has attempted to completely destroy the powerful Afrikan spiritual and cultural way and its Afrikan economy. The profound and deeply meaningful symbols of spirit life have been set upon with foul desecration and bogus demonization. Incensed with the baroness of their foreign lot and plagued with desperate desolation the ravenous enemy unleashed criminal piratic hell upon Afrikan souls. Genocide, theft, torture, brutality and other vile and monstrous ills became generationally perpetuated as the alien viciously slaughtered his way to criminal opulence. The intent of the anti-Afrikan forces – perpetual disenfranchisement of the Afrikan to maintain their institutionalised criminal piracy. The wickedness continues.

To this day, far too many Afrikan souls avoid their powerful spiritual and cultural symbols of empowerment because of enemy imposition. For far too many other misguided Afrikans, the enemy has coerced them so far away from themselves that they engage in self-demonization by actively condemning the powerful symbols of self. With enemy imposition the profound means of exchange have largely been replaced with the popularisation of passing printed bits of paper back and forth as money (or worse). These bits of paper often carry the images of foreign pirates, foreign inheritors of piracy loot or foreign symbols of piracy. This is nothing but demonic validation of legacy and sanction for current and future criminal intent in the guise of legitimate currency.

Marvellously, ever-increasing numbers of progressive Afrikan souls are creatively restoring their Afrikan way. The mighty symbol of the cowry shell is a part of that restoration magnificently energising the Afrikan at the deepest levels of his or her divinity and punctuating the imperative mission for the attainment and maintenance of their economy of self-governance. The cowry shell as part of spiritual and cultural motif is indeed a powerful reminder of Afrikan economic greatness. It is a symbol of the greatness of Afrikan economic restoration. It is a symbol of future projection of the Afrikan economic greatness to come.

In celebrating the wonderful observance of Ujamaa Kiburi Siku the cowry shell is a profound focal symbol of Afrikan economic empowerment. Energised with this important facet of spirit life the generational message of economic uplift becomes mainstay. Let the Afrikan economy live in the Afrikan continuum. As a basic part of the Afrika Ujamaa Siku observance the circulating of symbolic Fedha is empowering practice using currently accessible currency. Ultimately, real Afrikan Fedha  holding deep and profound meaning will be defined, expressed and otherwise utilised by the Afrikan as fully flourishing Afrikan economy is made real.

Ujamaa Kiburi Siku is an Afrikan observance of and for economic empowerment and is part of the Afrikan cultural and spiritual calendar of the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation (URAN). It is a day positioned at the time independence was fought and won by liberation fighters of the magnificently endowed country of Zimbabwe on the sacred homeland of Afrika. It is also the time marking the martyrdom of the economically prolific Afrika Town (Tulsa, Oklahoma aka Black Wall Street) of the diaspora. This wonderful day has its own symbols and practice.

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