What is it to be Cultured as an Afrikan?

As the primary people of creation Afrikan souls have not only brought forth human culture but also culture of the highest form. As such, the outward life expression of this naturally high cultured people does not simply dissipate into some fictional void to be deemed lost or to be of no consequence. On the contrary, from the profound depths of their powerful cultural norm of excellence this people produced the greatest most long-lived civilisations known to the world. This people ordered their lives and  established optimally functional life institutions for maximally flourishing nationhood. Afrikan cultural fabric with its values and other empowering facets elevated, structured and developed Afrikan life so that Afrikan life could build their own outward superlative structures of nation.

Of course, recent disruptions such as the Maafa of recent centuries has seen Afrikan culture attacked in many vile ways. Yet, Afrikan souls have made grand and successful efforts to restore and live their own way of life. A powerful example of this is the wonderful observance of Kwanzaa with its deeply meaningful and progressive values of the Nguzo Saba (Seven Principles) together with its symbols and other important elements. In this contemporary time, Afrikan souls throughout the world need not fantasise the living of their own way for the grand celebration of Kwanzaa provides at its core a basic minimum set of values that are highly accessible for engagement all-year-round.

Surely, gone are the days where Afrikans allow the  ignorance peddled by others that mean them ill to prevail. To have available a basic set of shared values by which the Afrikan world community can live is nothing short of a blessing absolute. For the Afrikan to ignore or side-step such a blessing would surely allow others that mean the Afrikan ill to rub their hands with glee. The consequences for this naturally highly cultured people to be void of their own way of life is tantamount to doom beyond the realms of this article to express.

Afrikan culture is self-determined and self-beneficial. In this, Afrikan people are cultured because they live their own culture – their own way of life. If not, then they are susceptible to exist as vessels solely for the empowerment of others. Afrikan culture naturally is there to be lived by its own people, the people whom it serves.

Far too often, the folly of culture-denial, culture-abandonment, culture-relinquishing has been peddled with dire destructive consequences. The Afrikan person self, the Afrikan male-female union of harmonious complementarity, the Afrikan family, the Afrikan community, the Afrikan nation, the Afrikan world community are all to thrive and fully flourish. To be uncultured is to be unbuilding, unprogressive, undeveloping and so on.

If culture equates to civilisation then for the Afrikan to be without Afrikan culture can only mean an uncivilised existence. No Afrikan in the world ought to accept such an unnatural and dire deficit. Nor should any Afrikan in the world have any excuse for engaging in their own way of life with such vehicles as Kwanzaa readily accessible across the Afrikan world for engagement.

Afrikan souls surely have a responsibility to the themselves in self-restoration and fullest thriving. It is naturally nonsensical to even conceive of uncultured Afrikan life. Yet, in present times natural order requires focus on the part of Afrikan souls to lift the self wherever located in the world and bring to the fore cultured living with progressive steps taken by the person in each mirror.

What is it to cultured as an Afrikan? It is to be alive.      

Culture is to be lived, civilisation is to be lived and Afrikan souls surely have a duty to themselves to build for themselves in self-determined grandeur. Culture and civilisation are rooted phenomena core to life rightful functioning and fullest flourishing. Surely Afrikan souls of the world must live. Are Afrikan souls living their own culture and civilisation? Such a question can surely only truly be answered from the restored rooted living of Afrikan life.  

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.

In his capacity as an Afrikan-centred spiritual cultural practitioner this author is available for further learning in this regard and also for the carrying out of ceremonies such as naming and name reclamation. For details please click here.

Afrikan World Studies programmes are an important forms of study in understanding the Afrikan experience. There are a range of subjects covered on these programmes including History, Creative Production, Psychology and Religion. To find out more about these learning programmes please click here. For the video promo for these learning programmes click here.

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 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.