What of Learning Resources?

If Afrikan souls are to realise their outcome of grand civilisation being their natural norm of living and the activity of self-determined learning is crucial to that effort – what of the substance of the learning resources? Certainly, the materials utilised in the learning of self ought to serve a curriculum of learning that is shaped to reveal the substance of this primary people’s natural norm of superlative construction with lessons that emerge from any adversity faced amidst their thrust of upright ascension.  Throughout the ages Afrikan souls produced and continually developed their own learning resources that served their construction of the greatest and most enduring civilisations ever to exist. Just as core elements of learning were staple from generation-to-generation – so too were wholesome and empowering learning resources in structures that served the greater and greatest good.

In the contemporary period, the term learning resources is defined by a mainstream source thus:

“Learning resources are those resources that the teachers use to help learners to meet the expectations for learning which are defined by the curriculum. They can also be defined as materials used by a teacher to add value to the instructions given by the teacher and to stimulate the interest of the learners present”.

In a state of interruption and disruption, Afrikan souls can be exposed to much by way of miseducation. Here, materials of ill content can be pushed and peddled in attempts to deny the Afrikan of knowingness of self, or to effect the unlearning of self or worse. Of course, any such materials are a reflection of the ill-structures that produced them, that they serve and that they support.

Surely then, Afrikan souls have a responsibility and duty to themselves to reestablish curricula and materials of self that services their norm of civilised living. For, civilisation does not come to be through happenstance nor from the disorderly efforts of others that mean the Afrikan ill allowed to prevail (directly or by proxy). The essential and genuine upright effort of Afrikan souls to teach themselves of themselves must have wholesome and supportive learning resources for their self-determined structures of rightfully ordered ascension.  As such, learning resources can necessarily highlight the enduring magnificence of optimal Afrikan flourishing as well as lessons that emerge from the recent disruptions of enslavement, colonisation and other ills. In addition, learning resources can hold content and be utilised to safeguard the Afrikan from contaminants of ill, self-destructive wrongdoings and the like. From whatever station, level or status each soul can make the effort to engage in the vital thrust of learning of self utilising upright vehicles of education with learning resources of empowerment.

The magnificent hero Marcus Garvey with profound depth of insightful wisdom eloquently articulates the following guiding words in relation to learning resource:

“The idea is that personal experience is not enough for a human to get all the useful knowledge of life, because the individual life is too short, so we must feed on the experience of others. The literature we read should include the biography and autobiography of men and women who have accomplished greatness in their particular line”.  

Afrikan souls amongst the annals of their richly endowed continuum have the works of this powerful visionary upon which to nourishingly ‘feed’ and learn from as a vital component of their grand inheritance. The resources of the Afrikan experience are immense and need only be accessed by each soul in order to inform their imperative of upright ascension. Civilisation must surely be realised.

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).