What of Narrative History?

The experience of their life’s unfolding has been depicted in a vast range of ways by Afrikan souls. Sometimes eloquently articulated through the spoken word or the word scribed upon scrolls; sometimes exquisitely etched upon walls as part of grand architectural design. Whatever the self-determined vehicle of expression this primary and spirit people of creation have empowered their wisdom tradition with through formal study of themselves and also through the art of recounting of their history in story-based form. The latter can be of great inspiration outside of the realms of formal study and can be particularly accessible to the very young. For example, many lessons gleaned from this people’s building of the greatest and most enduring civilisations ever to exist can be transmitted empoweringly in story for young ones to grasp from an early age.

In the contemporary era the term narrative history has been used to describe the articulation of history in this way. According to a mainstream source:

“Narrative history is the practice of writing history in a story-based form. It tends to entail history-writing based on reconstructing series of short-term events”,

Of course, for such writing to exist for Afrikan souls, some level of knowingness of their history is key. Such knowingness is a continual norm of their life throughout the ages. However, in a state of interruption and disruption, the challenges of imposed disorder can rear their ugly head. Others that mean the Afrikan ill may seek to deny or misinform Afrikan souls of their experience. Susceptible to such folly, souls may consider their historical knowingness and recall of no value and not worthy of being told. Of course, concoctions of pseudo-history are ever poised to fill in void. Meanwhile, story-form expression continues to be articulated and consumed. Here, such expression can reflect what to that which is deemed ‘valid’ – or masked as narrative history whilst being void of historical substance.

As history recalls, Afrikan souls have powerful gifts of expression in story-form articulation and can surely continue to make upright and progressive use of such a vehicle in the now and the tomorrows to come. In this - and despite any imposed challenges - it is only Afrikan souls themselves that can restore knowingness of and connection with their history continuum to rightfully inform any of their creative expressions of their history. In whatever capacity, station, level or status Afrikan souls can do themselves a great service by making steps to reclaim  knowingness of themselves and their history. At the same time, safeguarding against contaminants of ill, self-destructive wrongdoings and the like remain key.

If reality-based dramatised accounts of grand Afrikan civilisations can be told then, many lessons can necessarily be learnt and much inspiration for the upright ascension out of a less-than state of interrupted-ness can be brought to the fore. If all Afrikan souls have access to is the experience of a less-than state then the standards of their optimal norm can be rendered unseen and can be relegated to the realms of present and future unobtainability.

This pragmatic people of highly civilised living carry the ability to build and build superlatively as their continuum attests. Surely, this people can recover themselves to build in their norm of excellence again. This time secured into eternity.  Civilisation is not of happenstance.

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