What of a Learning Contradiction?

The ascending thrust of Afrikan life throughout the ages is not only their mainstay norm but the stuff of their bringing forth pinnacle civilisation. In this, ascension is upright motion of a peoplehood for whom self-determined life activities both confirm and secure highly civilised living. One such life activity is that of learning. For this soul people of creation learning is vital and naturally a wholesome endeavour that services their ascension of rightful order. At its core is the knowingness of themselves that empoweringly harmonises with the study of whatever panorama of subjects this primary people deem fit to fulfil their maximal potential and maximal capabilities.  Thus, it would naturally be nonsensical for these pioneering builders of the greatest and most enduring civilisations ever to exist to harbour negative, false or self-destructive contradictions that work against the reality of who and what they are and their naturally great heights of functioning – whether in learning or otherwise.

According to a contemporary mainstream source contradiction in learning attracts the following description:

“a big difference between two things that are said or written about the same subject, or between what someone says and what they do: There is a clear contradiction between what she says and what she does”.

Imagine if you will a set of circumstances where Afrikan souls were miseducated into unknowingness of themselves and then tasked to be ‘functional’ in life. This would not only present a dire contradiction in ‘learning’, but would also mean that in such a state Afrikans could be vulnerable to having their totality of existence being consumed by some designated ‘function’ dictated by others that mean them ill. Well, for this imagination may not at all be necessary, for in a state of interruption and disruption this can certainly be a reality of outside imposition.  

Of course, Afrikan souls are the only souls that can bring about the restoration of their own self-knowingness. Yet, whilst exposed to the vices of miseducation a chasm is presented between what the Afrikan wholesomely learns of self for the imperative of upright ascension and what is pushed and peddled for the purposes of ill. Here, levels of safeguarding the self from ills are key, else contradictions can then become manifest within the self as ills become consumed and their corresponding behaviours are expressed. Here, the temptation to abandon the vital restoration of self-knowingness as a means to resolve the contradiction surely ought to be resisted by the Afrikan otherwise the ills of miseducation could become all-consuming and validated as a norm of ‘comfortability’. Such circumstance would surely allow others that mean the Afrikan ill to rub their hands with glee at the prospect of full and open access to a populous steeped in unknowingness of themselves and thus readily vulnerable to perpetual disuse.

From whatever station, level or status Afrikan souls must determine a learning of themselves to be. This is vital for their recovery, building, ascension and continuance. At the same time, this spirit people of creation ought to ensure security measures against contaminants of ill, self-destructive wrongdoing and the like are a part of their upright thrust.

The magnificent hero Marcus Garvey in utterance of his profound depths of wisdom poignantly illuminates the following:

“Let us not fail to welcome the strenuous efforts of life. These efforts were not intended as responsibilities to be shirked by men, but to the contrary, to be assumed and carried out in justification of true human existence. Let us not be found wanting, but ever ready to do the work that our fathers did in ages past, and that we can well do when we get to know ourselves today”.

With all of the strenuous challenges life can bring the Afrikan can and surely must energise and lubricate the imperative of upright ascension with knowingness of self. Importantly, the making void of negative learning contradictions within and protecting the self of miseducation and other ill vices from outside can be a great boon to civilised living. Indeed, wholesome and productive knowingness of self inherently dispels life thwarting contradictions. The highly civilised norm of this soul people is not an occurrence of happenstance.  

The observance of Musa Msimu takes place during the month of so-called August and is a wonderful time to celebrate the mighty example of Marcus Garvey and the Movement that he created led in order for future generations of Afrikans to have their guide for complete freedom and nationhood. Musa Msimu is a part of the Afrikan Cultural calendar of the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation (URAN).