What of Cultural Capital?

The world’s pioneering people of culture and civilisation naturally have a magnificent repository of cultural assets from which to draw. Powerfully endowed with the vital and core fundamentals of life’s flourishing and expression, exceptionally gifted and brilliancy-laden outcomes have been replete for Afrikan souls throughout the ages. Of course, culture and civilisation are at one, in that, there is no pinnacle civilisation void of high culture. Therefore, for this people to have established the greatest and most enduring civilisations ever to exist their cultural assets were necessarily immensely bountiful.

In the contemporary era , the phrase cultural capital has been used to indicate particular assets of peoplehood. A mainstream source puts it this way:

“cultural capital comprises the social assets of a person (education, intellect, style of speech, style of dress, etc.)”.

Whilst this definition blends aspects which may be considered a part of one’s cultural core with outward cultural expressions and aesthetics, the sense of asset value is made clear.  

What does this then mean for Afrikan souls in a state of interruption and disruption? With the use of the word ‘capital’ comparisons with economy are readily apparent. Certainly, there is much pushed and peddled by others that monetary gain is central, core, principal and the absolute all required of existence – and everything else is tertiary noise. Indeed, others that mean the Afrikan ill are surely ecstatic at the prospect that the Afrikan could be shoe-horned into an exclusive money-centred or money-is-all notion of existence - especially when souls are subject to the ‘economic’ functioning of those same others who can seek to exercise control and dominance via the most convenient means possible.  

Yet, establishment and use of money as a tool of functioning is a natural expression of Afrikan self-economy. At the same time, Afrikan self-economy is naturally born of their core cultural assets and embedded within lived cultural fabric.

So then, what is the current state of Afrikan ‘cultural capital’?  Take two of the elements highlighted in the above definition: education and intellect. Surely, Afrikan souls have a responsibility to themselves to restore their self-knowingness via education of their own determination. Surely, Afrikan intellect is to be restored so that it can be applied for Afrikan benefit.  Indeed, with cultural capital, other forms of capital can be established and utilised in thrust of upright Afrikan flourishing throughout the various levels of the self.  

Cultural capital then is civilisation capital. It would be a travesty if this pioneering people were to wallow in a abject state of cultural (civilisation) deficit. This people must surely secure their related assets now and into eternity.

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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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.

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