The Self-Determined Brilliancy of Afrikan People (Part 2)

The self-determined brilliancy of Afrikan souls is necessarily rooted within their own cultural fabric of life, and has been so throughout the ages. This primary people of the world and the builders of the world’s greatest and longest-lived civilisations empowered by the Creator Supreme determined their own life expression of rightfulness and order.

Despite being hurled into the Maafa of recent centuries, in an exceptional thrust of self-determined effort Afrikan souls have beautifully restored their own cultural fabric in such a way as to make it accessible to Afrikan souls throughout the world in the now and in time to come with their own grand observance of Kwanzaa. Core to this wonderful time of year are the values of the Nguzo Saba (Seven Principles). Within this deeply meaningful value set self-determination is rightfully and explicitly detailed. It is superbly identified with the Kiswahili word Kujichagulia and is excellently summarised as follows:

To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves. Instead of being defined, named, created for and spoken for by others.

To energise understanding of this magnificent principle a look at key words within this eloquent summary may be considered useful.

Acccording to a popular mainstream source the word define is stated to be:

“what is meant by a word, text, concept, or action”.

The same source describes the word name as:

 “a word or set of words by which a person or thing is known, addressed, or referred to”.

In addition, this source also states the word create means to:

“bring (something) into existence”.

Finally, the source highlights that the word speak means to:

“say something in order to convey information or to express a feeling” or “(of behaviour, an object, etc.) serve as evidence for something”.

These words in application to Afrikan life at the necessary and rooted cultural level hold deeply meaningful and progressive implication. In embracing their Nguzo Saba throughout the levels of the self: the Afrikan person self, the harmonious and complementary Afrikan male-female union, the Afrikan family, the Afrikan community, the Afrikan nation and so on, this primary people are empowered to bring themselves out of cultural crisis and into life’s fullest flourishing through their own determination. Specifically, Kujichagulia (as the focus of this discussion), is a cultural value of rightful living assertion. It is of Afrikan identity, confidence, esteem and dignity that challenges disorder, confusion and chaos (amongst much else).   Of course, Kugichagulia does not exist in isolation of the other principles of the Nguzo Saba. None of the principles do, for they are not mutually exclusive between themselves with Umoja (Unity) being the foundational principle. Yet still, discussion of the principles on each of their own superlative merits is part of the self-determined celebratory thrust as each principle is highlighted on its respective day during the seven-day observance period itself.

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.