When You Put a Seed In the Soil It Remains Beneath the Soil Until the Season Changes: What of an Eternal Season of Self Love? 

The word love may be utilised to describe a wide array of emotive phenomenon. Yet, to speak of Afrikan self-love one can bring forth awareness of key self-determined effort necessary for the realisation of Afrikan life optimality. To illustrate this, a mainstream source offers the following description as it may relate to an individual: 

“Self-love is a state of appreciation for oneself that grows from actions that support our physical, psychological and spiritual growth. Self-love means having a high regard for your own well-being and happiness. Self-love means taking care of your own needs and not sacrificing your well-being to please others”. 

Of course, in the context of this discussion, self-love is considered to have broader remit of describing a whole people – in this case, the Afrikan. So, for the purpose of focusing specifically upon the Afrikan experience in its wider and shared sense of oneness, adaptation of the sourced detail is considered apt. In so doing, the following may be articulated: 

“Afrikan self-love is a state of appreciation for the Afrikan self – throughout its various levels - whether here, there or elsewhere that grows from upright effort that supports rightful Afrikan physical, psychological and spiritual growth in service of Afrikan ascension. Afrikan self-love means having pinnacle regard for the fullest flourishing and security of Afrikan souls, thus safeguarding their well-being and happiness as a people. Afrikan self-love means that Afrikan souls take care of their own needs in the best ways possible whilst guarding against the sacrificing of the self and its natural order of well-being for the benefit and pleasure of others”. 

The natural norm of Afrikan souls holding their mainstay of Afrikan self-love can become an acutely challenging affair if Afrikan souls are subject to state of interruption and disruption by others that mean the Afrikan ill. Indeed, miseducation and other vices of ill may lead to the dire oppositional category of self-hate.  

The great hero Omowale Malcolm X, with deep insight and wisdom powerfully articulates a number driving questions to bring forth realisation of ills pushed and peddled by others (directly or by proxy) when he brilliantly asks: 

“Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet? Who taught you to hate your own kind?” 

Afrikan souls surely have a vital responsibility to themselves to restore their eternal thrust of Afrikan self-love. To do otherwise can open the door to all-manner of degradation. Certainly, fullest flourishing and security of this primary people of creation cannot be achieved if self-hatred has taken hold and that renders a pervasive existence of unworthiness or worse. After all, civilisation is not of happenstance.

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The important text: From Ajar to Omowale – The Spiritual & Garveyite Journey of Malcolm X by this author is available to purchase online here. The trailer for this important text can be found online here. This publication provides detail on the life and example of this great hero. You can also visit the establishment of Yemanja-O to pick up a copy.

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