When You Put a Seed In the Soil It Remains Beneath the Soil Until the Season Changes: What of Shared Historical Creativity? 

Throughout their history Afrikan souls have been at the forefront of creativity in superlative ways on the plain of humanity. This is a people who creatively established the greatest and most enduring civilisations ever to exist. Bearing in mind that civilisation and culture are one, this primary people naturally hold, and are deeply steeped in their creation quality of pinnacle order. As their lived authentic culture at the core level of shared oneness (creatively restored or otherwise) naturally services their optimality, so too do their outward cultural expressions of creativity.  

A contemporary mainstream source offers the following relevant detail: 

“Cultural creativity refers to the process of enriching everyday life by reworking, elaborating, and adding new meanings and routines to it. It involves individuals and groups actively shaping their cultures through creative expressions and resistance against dominant patterns”. 

To bring focus specifically to the Afrikan experience at the level of shared oneness, adaptation is considered apt. In making alterations, detail that looks something like the following may result: 

“Afrikan cultural creativity refers to the process of enriching everyday Afrikan life by reworking, elaborating and adding new meanings to it in service of Afrikan people’s fullest flourishing and security here, there and elsewhere. It involves Afrikan souls wherever located engaging in their authentic culture of shared oneness – creatively restored or otherwise – through creative expression and safeguarding themselves against any imposed patterns of ill or disruptive disorder”.  

Unfortunately, others that mean the Afrikan ill may seek to deny the Afrikanness of the creativity that is born of Afrikan souls and somehow falsely reimagine it to be something else. In the recent past, the enslaver or the coloniser took it upon themselves to falsely claim the benefits of Afrikan creative flow as their own. There was a destructive attempt to leave Afrikan souls bereft of the means to channel their creative cultural expressions for Afrikan betterment. Is this true today? Or, perhaps a more pertinent question is: How much of Afrikan cultural creativity do Afrikan souls rightfully recognise as theirs and is it used in service of Afrikan fullest flourishing and security here, there and elsewhere?  Only Afrikan souls can look into the mirror of themselves for answers. If the answers reflect the negative, then surely there is self-determined effort on the part of the Afrikan to engage in appropriate and relevant levels of learning, development, restoration, reclamation and application.  

The great hero Omowale Malcolm X, with is profound depth of wisdom urged Afrikan souls to: 

“Wake Up! Stand Up! And Clean Up!”. 

These concise yet potent words of wisdom can be guiding indeed. 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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