What of Cultural Autonomy?

For Afrikan souls  in their own natural norm of self-governed societal flourishing, to have anything less than their self-determined high culture in place as a part of their vital core of life would have been unthinkable to state the least.  This primary people rightfully expressed autonomy in establishing and living their culture that produced the greatest and most enduring civilisations ever to exist. Indeed, throughout the ages pinnacle civilisation defined the rightfully ordered thrust of this people’s constructive efforts.

According to a contemporary mainstream source, the term cultural autonomy is described in the following way:

“cultural autonomy means the right of self-government for a culturally defined group in those matters that involve the preservation of its own culture”.

Of course, such a definition highlights aspects of Afrikan life’s norm in optimality. However, what of cultural autonomy in a state of interruption and disruption? Destructively set upon by others that mean the Afrikan ill, norms of self-governance and cultural functioning can suffer acutely. Others may even seek to impose governance structures of anti-Afrikan culture that attempt to deny or crush this soul people’s highly cultured norm of living and fullest flourishing. Compounding disorder, others may also push and peddle pseudo-culture riddled with contaminants of ill for Afrikan consumption. If such pseudo-culture were to take-hold then the notion of autonomy could become misplaced and applied in err to that pseudo-cultural substitute. Here, susceptible souls may attempt to define themselves through it, attempt defend it and attempt to preserve it amplifying descent into self-destructiveness.  

Despite the challenges, any such conditions surely dictate that the restoration of wholesome core Afrikan cultural fabric for this people’s optimal flourishing and security is vital. Only Afrikan souls can do this for themselves. In this, a primary port-of-call is the recovery of self-knowingness exercised through self-determined learning and development.

A culture restored can then be rightfully preserved. Preservation of pseudo-cultures laced with self-destructive vices can only result in descent towards doom. So, surely this primary people of creation have a duty and responsibility to themselves to lift themselves in constructive cultured ascent.

To cement the substance of this discussion, let us change the word cultural to civilised. Civilised autonomy is surely nothing short of imperative for the pioneering people of civilisation. Certainly, civilisation is not of happenstance.  

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.

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