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

It is both natural and normal for Afrikan souls to be themselves in the truism of who and what they are as soul people who share a core oneness regardless of geographical locale. In this, the Afrikan can readily engage in the necessary and continual thrust of whole Afrikan ascension of rightful order.  This can be described as this people being authentic to themselves. Indeed, the realisation of the authentic Afrikan self surely ought to be vital self-determined functioning for this primary people of creation.  

Yet, in a state of interruption and disruption what is natural and normal in Afrikan life may set upon destructively by others that mean the Afrikan ill to the point that authenticity of self becomes skewed or worse. Of course, any imposition of pseudo-identities, pseudo-cultural fabric and the like may be pushed and peddled as tools to induce or amplify damage.  

Despite the challenges, it is only Afrikan souls themselves that can secure the authenticity of themselves. Here, some definitional detail is considered apt for the discussion.  According to a contemporary mainstream source:  

“Your authentic self is who you really are deep down. The part of you that doesn't care what others think. Authenticity happens when your words, actions, and behaviours consistently match your core identity”. 

In order to bring focus specifically to the Afrikan experience, adaptation can be utilised with a result that may look something like the following: 

“The Afrikan authentic self is who Afrikan souls are at the deepest, rooted and fundamental level whether they are here, there or elsewhere. Authenticity for this primary people of creation is realised when their words, actions and behaviours consistently match their core and shared identity”. 

This presents some clear challenges in the context of interruption and disruption, where Afrikan souls may become shoehorned into taking on the characteristics that others desire of them rather than their own natural and authentic self. The great hero Omowale Malcolm X with his exceptional depth of wisdom eloquently brings this to light in describing the enslaved Afrikan and his so-called master: 

“He identified himself with his master, more than his master identified with himself”. 

Surely, Afrikan souls cannot continue to relinquish their authentic selves and become consumed with the faux identity and beingness imposed by an enslaver, coloniser or by proxy. As history attests, this is fuel for a host of destructive ills that are dire and detrimental Afrikan life including the fragmenting vice of divide and rule.  

This soul people can – and surely must – secure their authentic self from here to eternity in strength of their natural shared oneness for their fullest flourishing. At the same time this primary people of creation ought to disallow anti-Afrikan vices to take hold of their lives and destroy their Afrikan authentic self.  After all, civilisation is not of happenstance.    

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