When You Put a Seed In the Soil It Remains Beneath the Soil Until the Season Changes: What of Historic Cultural Performance? 

Cultural performances are a powerful feature of Afrikan life throughout the ages. Though they are not the same as core Afrikan cultural substance nor culture as a whole they naturally have an important role to play in the expression of Afrikan life. Of course, throughout the Afrikan continuum there are a vast array of instances where the cultural performances of this soul people in service of their fullest flourishing and security are of such significance that they may be deemed historic.  

To shed some semblance of definitional light on the subject, a contemporary mainstream source offers the following detail: 

“Cultural performances are diverse and vary greatly across different cultures. They often reflect the values, beliefs, traditions, and customs of a particular society or community. Some examples of cultural performances include dance, music, drama, puppetry, storytelling, and rituals”. 

In order to bring focus specifically to the Afrikan experience at the level of shared core oneness that this primary people of creation naturally hold, adaptation is deemed appropriate engagement here. In so doing, something that looks like the following may be expressed: 

“Authentic Afrikan cultural performances are naturally rooted to shared core cultural substance (creatively restored or otherwise) in Afrikan life whether the Afrikan is located here, there or elsewhere. They naturally reflect the values, beliefs, traditions and customs that reflect Afrikan life at the level of core oneness that Afrikans hold regardless of their geographical locale. Some examples of authentic Afrikan cultural performances include dance, music, drama, storytelling and ceremony”.  

Unfortunately, others that mean the Afrikan may take it upon themselves to derail, misrepresent or even coopt cultural performances brought forth by Afrikan souls. Against this, the Afrikan must surely safeguard. Of course, securing authentic performance and reaping the rewards of the positive inspirational, informational or guiding qualities that such expressions can bring may become a near impossibility if the receiving soul is steeped in unknowingness of self.  

Thus, Afrikan souls surely have a duty and responsibility to themselves to recover and restore self-knowingness, cultured living (creatively restored or otherwise) and allow their authentic cultural performances to empower Afrikan life in service of continual Afrikan ascension.  

The great hero Omowale Malcolm X highlights the importance of performance in Afrikan life when he poignantly describes performance artists as: 

“wielders of souls”. 

A question may well then be: What essential and progressive endeavours will Afrikan souls wield themselves to engage in for Afrikan betterment utilising their cultural performances? The answer to such a question can be considered to be one of self-reflection and self-projection as Afrikan souls look to themselves here, there and elsewhere. After all, civilisation is not of happenstance.  

The Universal Royal Afrikan Nation (URAN) is an organ that is rooted in spiritual and cultural fabric for the imperative the mission of global Afrikan ascendancy. Throughout its annual observance calendar cycle URAN energises active knowingness in and from the core spirit levels of Afrikan beingness. 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.

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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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