What of Cultural Competency?

In naturality, it would be nonsensical to conceive of the primary and spirit people of creation who brought forth culture and civilisation to somehow be bereft of their own cultural competency.  This is a people, who throughout the ages, have demonstrated self-determined cultivation of their lives with brilliancy beyond compare. Such truism does not mean absolute and unwavering perfection in everything, everywhere and every time, for that is the preserve of the Creator Supreme. Yet, the striving for perfectibility and continuity of upright ascension is reflective of the highly cultured norm of living this soul people are naturally steeped in. Of course, the outward display of highly cultured expression is grand whether in art, science or otherwise. Still, the core of cultured living is both vital and fundamental for any such expression to be realised for the thriving and flourishing of Afrikan souls.  

According to a contemporary mainstream source the term cultural competency is defined thus:

"Cultural competency means being aware of your own cultural beliefs and values and how these may be different from other cultures”.

Despite the efforts of others that mean the Afrikan ill during times of interruption and disruption to deny Afrikans their culture, naturality rises nonetheless. Afrikan souls have made exceptional efforts to recover and restore their norms of highly cultured living. Necessarily and dynamically, this soul people have engaged in the reclamation of their upright ascending way of life not by simply taking a snapshot of what was and rigidly applying it in the present. Rather, through a process of creative restoration the Afrikan has organically brought forth the best cultural qualities from the panorama of their continuum to reestablish their values, practices and energising symbols of cultured ascension.

An outstanding example of this is the magnificent and richly endowed cultural observance of Kwanzaa. Wherever, Afrikan souls may stand and whatever station, level or status the Afrikan may hold, this powerful observance is readily accessible for their engagement and participation. This is of all-year-round implication, for Kwanzaa is a seven-day celebration of the Afrikan harvest. Indeed, all-year-round efforts for cultured ascension and the security of Afrikan life can be brought to the fore during this wonderful period.

For sure, Afrikan souls have an empowering vehicle to attest their cultural competency. Far from being some detached theoretical conception, Kwanzaa is a grand observance of values-rich practical engagement and holds progressive fabric of substance for all-year-round living. As such, through participation, adherents are able to livingly refute any erroneous and alien notion of cultural competency being void amongst Afrikan souls. Certainly, this pioneering people of creation are naturally far from being culturally incompetent as the orchestrators of their superlatively cultured norm with all the magnificent benefits for optimal living and upright ascension that come with it.  It may well be an understatement to use the descriptor of cultural competency without qualifiers for this pioneering people of culture and civilisation. Perhaps exceptional cultural competency would be more apt for this people steeped in their core fabric of life that has yielded the results of the greatest and most enduring civilisations ever to exist.

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-O establishment 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.