Upright Empowerment of an Economy of Self: What of Economic Retention?

To have established the greatest and most enduring civilisations ever to exist, Afrikan souls necessarily had to embody the quality of retention. Here, Afrikan souls naturally held onto the aspects of their lives that best served their thriving. Of course, within the area of Afrikan economic functioning the quality of retention has its place of importance.

According to a contemporary mainstream source:

“In an economic context, "retention" generally refers to the act of keeping or holding onto something, particularly in the context of employment, customer relationships, or financial agreements”.

In order to bring focus specifically upon the Afrikan

“Afrikan economic retention can refer to the self-determined acts of keeping or holding onto Afrikan resources, assets, functioning and constructs (whether physical, structural, social or otherwise) that service the fullest flourishing and security of Afrikan souls here, there and elsewhere. Afrikan economic retention may include relevant relationships, agreements and other areas of rightful functioning that service Afrikan ascension regardless of geographical locale”.

Unfortunately, others that mean the Afrikan ill may take it upon themselves to promote attrition amongst Afrikan souls. Here, Afrikan souls may be encouraged or incentivised to abandon efforts to service their own economic thriving. Others of ill may instead seek to impose regimes of ‘retention’ that exclusively serve their best interests wherein Afrikan souls neglect rightful functioning of and for the Afrikan self as some sort of ‘valid norm’. In this, whether consciously or not, the Afrikan may be plunged into a sphere of self-denial where rightful missioning for Afrikan optimality can be a ‘battle’ or ‘competition’ for economic self-dignity and thriving.

 Another mainstream source offers the following detail:

“Economic attrition is often influenced by broader economic conditions…it can also lead to a loss of valuable knowledge and experience”.

Certainly, there are lessons that Afrikan people can learn from this even at the person level of day-to-day living. Surely, Afrikan souls ought to avoid intentionally setting up harassing battles that attempt to draw Afrikan souls away from their rightful thrust of Afrikan self-economy thriving. Such ill-efforts are tantamount to working in service of others of ill by proxy. Perpetrators may attempt to deny rightful Afrikan retentions via the use of wilfully destructive gossip-mongering, the spreading of falsehoods and other deceitful and deceptive wrongdoings of dire disorder. This is despicable at best.

Afrikan souls surely ought to safeguard themselves against such destructive folly and uprightly engage in the thrust for their betterment. In this, the recovery of self-knowledge and authentic cultured living (creatively restored or otherwise) is key. After all, civilisation is not of happenstance.

Ujamaa Kiburi Siku is a wonderful part of the spiritual-cultural observance calendar of the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation. It takes place in the first week of June marking the time of significant occurrence both on the continent of Afrika and in the diaspora concerning Afrikan economy. Ujamaa Kiburi Siku as with the other observances on the Afrikan cultural calendar is just that – an observance. Therefore, wherever the Afrikan is whether at home, at a community gathering or elsewhere it can be observed.

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