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

To ask of Afrikans if they have a cultural upbringing during their natural norm of highly civilised living would surely be nonsensical. For this primary people of creation, their civilised living necessarily holds the purposeful and upright cultivation of each generation to the next. This is learning and development. This is passages of rites. This is the continual thrust of ascension of rightful order. All in service of this soul people’s fullest flourishing and security here, there and elsewhere. It is no wonder then, that Afrikan people were able to establish the greatest and most enduring civilisations ever to exist throughout their historical unfolding.  

A contemporary mainstream source offers the following description of cultural upbringing:  

“Cultural upbringing refers to the socialisation process in which an individual is raised within a specific cultural group, acquiring its norms, values, customs, and traditions”. 

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

“Authentic Afrikan cultural upbringing refers to the spiritual, cultural, social and other necessary processes in which Afrikan souls raise themselves on a self-determined basis in service of their fullest flourishing and security from generation to generation. With this, Afrikan souls here, there and elsewhere acquire, engage in and safeguard their authentic norms, values, customs and traditions – whether creatively restored or otherwise – in order for this primary people to realise their optimality”.  

Unfortunately, others that mean the Afrikan ill, may seek to sever Afrikan souls from their authentic cultural upbringing in pursuit of parasitic whims and other forms of disorder. Yet, Afrikans can do themselves a great service by reclaiming their history continuum that contains their cultural knowingness of the ages.  

The great hero Omowale Malcolm X, as a child growing up in the western hemisphere had cultural groundings that ought not be trivialised nor discarded and – at the same time – can be a source of learning for Afrikan souls in the now. According to one source: 

“Recalling his father in his autobiography, Malcolm X said, "the image of him that made me proudest was his crusading and militant campaigning with the words of Marcus Garvey ... it was only me that he sometimes took with him to the Garvey U.N.I.A. meetings which he held quietly in different people's homes””. 

Whatever disruptive challenges confront Afrikan souls, it is only they that can secure their authentic Afrikan cultural upbringing at the level of shared oneness. 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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