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

The cultural history of Afrikan people is naturally the civilisation history of Afrikan people. Here, culture (or civilisation) is recognised as a self-determined norm of soul people here, there and elsewhere in its wholesomeness of being. Whilst the outward aesthetic output of artistic display holds its valuable importance as cultural (or civilisation) expression, it is naturally born of deeper and fundamentally rooted substance.  Indeed, this primary people of creation ushered culture (civilisation) into being on the plain of humanity and developed it with the pioneering excellence that brought forth unparalleled longevity and constructive brilliance. Thus, as Afrikan souls necessarily study their history, the grand substance of their cultural history surely ought to be of powerful importance.  

To illustrate this somewhat, a contemporary mainstream source offers the following detail: 

“Cultural history is going to include a group's approach to politics and history via their culture, but also their economic situation and social history”. 

Throughout recent centuries, the authentic culture of Afrikan souls at the level of shared oneness (creatively restored or otherwise), has in many ways been destructively set upon by others that mean the Afrikan ill. From the pushing and peddling of miseducation and other forms of anti-Afrikan propaganda; to the concoction and peddling of divisive pseudo-histories, pseudo-identities and so on – vices of ill can abound.  

In such a state, it is surely the duty and responsibility of Afrikan souls regardless of geographical locale to put their shoulder to the wheel of reclaiming their authentic cultural history and engage in their self-determined process of recovery, restoration and thriving in wholeness of cultural substance (creatively restored or otherwise). 

See, the Afrikan can be on Afrikan soil and be at a dire deficit in the knowingness of their cultural history, the Afrikan can be in the Americas and in the Islands be at a dire deficit in the knowingness of their cultural history, the Afrikan in the UK or in Europe or elsewhere can be at a dire deficit in the knowingness of their cultural history. Indeed, there may be a dire deficit in the knowingness of their history in general terms. Certainly, the talons of any imposed destruction have not been discriminatory to only focus upon Afrikan souls in one geographical locale only. Thus, Afrikan souls regardless of their geographical station can – and surely must – recover the shared core knowingness of themselves in the best ways possible. 

The great hero Omowale Malcolm X, with his profound depth of wisdom and exceptionally keen insight eloquently expresses the following:      

“It’s a person who has no history; and by having no history, he has no culture. Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people. And when you look at us, those of us who are called Negro, we’re called that because we are like a dead people. We have nothing to identify ourselves as part of the human family. You know, you take a tree, you can tell what kind of tree it is by looking at the leaves. If the leaves are gone, you can look at the bark and tell what kind it is. But when you find a tree with the leaves gone and the bark gone, everything gone, you call that a what? And you can’t identify a stump as easily as you can identify a tree”. 

Afrikan culture (civilisation) is naturally the remit of whole people. It is certainly not a phenomenon 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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Also, visit www.u-ran.org for links to Afrikan liberation Love radio programme on Universal Royal Afrikan Radio online.