What of Cultural Knowledge?

The natural levels of knowingness Afrikan souls hold for their own cultural fabric is profound and deep. It is a lived knowingness that is rooted in their core development of peoplehood of the ages. It is transmitted from each generation to the next through a variety of conduits. It is vital for this people’s fullest flourishing and continual empowerment. Void of knowingness of their own culture is to be void in crucial and comprehensive knowingness of themselves. Indeed, it is the knowingness of self-civilisation that reveals the natural norm of its superlative and enduring expression.

Interestingly, a contemporary mainstream definition of cultural knowledge takes the approach that is a phenomenon that relates only to the outside observer thus:

"Cultural knowledge" means that you know about some cultural characteristics, history, values, beliefs, and behaviours of another ethnic or cultural group”.

The implication of such a definition in practice for Afrikan souls subject to interruption and disruption can be dire. Here, stripped of their own cultural knowingness by others that mean the Afrikan ill, the acquisition of ‘cultural knowledge’ is to learn of other people’s history, other people’s values, other people’s belief and other people’s behaviours. This ‘cultural knowledge’ empowers those others who hold their culture intact. Meanwhile, the Afrikan in a such as state, is left to abandon or neglect the natural recovery of cultural self-knowingness utilising this ‘cultural knowledge’ as the substitute.

Surely, it is of primary importance for Afrikan souls to have wholesome knowingness of their own cultural fabric that empowers their lives accordingly. Of course, where there is cultural deficit self-determined restoration is key. At the same time, vices of  derailment from connection to their own upright core of life flourishing ought to be safeguarded against. The effort of learning and development is an indispensable vehicle of engagement in this regard.

Cultural knowledge that this primary people of creation hold of their own culture is really the knowledge of their highly civilised norm. Whilst awareness of what others people have and do can be of worth to be aware of, it surely ought not to be misplaced as foundational and core to Afrikan life. Soul people are the pioneering thrust of civilisation and culture in the first place and surely must reveal their capacity to restore knowledge of themselves and reveal and secure their highly civilised way. 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.

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.