What of Community Learning?

It is an ageless truism that learning is natural and vital functioning within the rightfully ordered and self-determined lives of Afrikan souls. At the core is the learning of themselves in order know who and what they are and to realise their maximal potential and capability. With knowingness of self this primary and pioneering people established the greatest and most enduring civilisations ever to exist. Here, it could be said that knowing the self in naturally civilised beingness gives rise to the norm of pinnacle civilisation and learning for this is key.  By converse, a state of not knowing of the naturally civilised self does not yield the norm of pinnacle civilisation.

In the contemporary era, the Afrikan community – here, there or elsewhere - can be the learning ground in which civilised living of rightful order for ascension can be realised and amplified into evermore grand construction. Learning of the self remains a crucial core at this level.

According to a mainstream source community learning can be described in the following way:

“Community education, also known as community-based education or community learning & development, is an organization's programs to promote learning and social development work with individuals and groups in their communities using a range of formal and informal methods”.

Just as learning of natural civilised beingness gives rise to pinnacle civilisation, so too does learning of the Afrikan community-self give rise to continual and flourishing community. Of course, community for this primary and spirit people of creation is relatively a microcosmic level of their fully blossoming civilisation norm of the years before.

Yet, in a state of interruption and disruption community-self knowingness can be at a dire deficit, so much so, that its functioning and fullest flourishing can be left wanting to state the least. If unknowingness of this vital construct prevails amongst its members, then the norm of servicing can be acutely disrupted and in turn the services it would naturally provide can be severely thwarted or worse.

See, for this soul people community learning is not merely about location or target as in ‘community-based’. Certainly, the ill-vice of miseducation can be deployed within a specific target location or community base. Rather, Afrikan community learning surely ought to hold the substance of its recovery, restoration, construction and ascension of rightful order. Here then, it is only Afrikan souls that can determine and deliver the learning necessary for the elevation and security of themselves. From whatever station, level or status each soul can make a step of vital learning engagement for upright ascension. At the same time, souls can do themselves a great service by taking heed of the aspects of their learning content that inform the safeguarding against contaminants of ill, self-destructive wrongdoings and the like.  

Surely, there is dutiful traction to be gained if there is a deficit in community and community functioning of rightful order to ask of the self: Where is the Afrikan community learning? And then, fulfil the answer with engagement, participation or even establishment as conditions call for.

The magnificent hero Marcus Garvey with his great gifts of profound depths of wisdom and high eloquence articulated the following mission-compelling words:

“We shall ever ring true the cause of universal [Afrikan] uplift. We feel it a duty and a serious obligation to our group to so lead and direct them, so as to enable them to escape the pitfalls and dangers that are to be expected in such a tremendous battle for survival, in a world so selfish, unsympathetic and aggressive as this one in which we live”.  

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).