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5 Ways To Awaken True Black Consciousness

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If you are new to Black consciousness and are wondering where to start, this article is for you! Read it and share it with your circles, groups, and followers. The more people who join you on your path, the stronger our movement becomes!

When I first came into consciousness, I was taught to believe the way that others believed, and to accept the opinions of others as my own. From the Nation of Islam to the New Black Panther Party, I was indoctrinated to change my identity to one that fit those organizations.

But that never felt right to me.

As I got deeper into the knowledge and read books like these scrolls, I realized that consciousness is not about following other peoples teachings, but letting those teachings reveal the truth within you.

True consciousness is not about understanding who other people are and their dogma! It is a process that helps you understand who you are, how you came to be, the world around you, and your place in that world!

There are two concepts that I – along with the rest of our organization – developed to help you understand who you are: the concept of your Nia and the 5 Elements.

Table of Contents

    • Start By Understanding Who You Are
    • Understanding the 5 Elements of your Life
  • Practice Sankofa
  • Learn Swahili
  • Self-Educate
    • Make a choice. Take a stand.

Start By Understanding Who You Are

Understanding your nia – a Kiswahili word that means ‘purpose’ – is the most important task on your path to gaining knowledge of self!

This purpose is your life mission, and it is the reason why you are here. For you to live ‘on purpose’, every part of your life must be aligned with your nia.

Discovering the reason why you are here is not hard. In fact, with a few hours of concentration and focus, you can go through this process of self-discovery on your own.

At the end of this article, I will give you a link to a podcast that I recorded that will help you discover your nia, so keep reading and take action once you are done.

Understanding the 5 Elements of your Life

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The symbol that represents the Five Elements of Life

I mentioned above that the way you live on purpose is by aligning every part of your life with your nia.

The problem that I discovered in the Black Conscious community was that there were thousands of ways to define the different parts of your life.

But when I started to break everything down, I found that there are really only 5 elements that make up the hue-man being.

These elements are…

● The Physical Element of Life
● The Metaphysical Element of Life
● The Career/Academic Element of Life
● The Resources Element of Life, and
● The Relationships Element of Life

In our article titled How To Expand Black Consciousness By Understanding The 5 Elements Of Your Life, we break down each element of life and how to structure your life in a way that these elements align with your nia.

Black Consciousness Starts With Overstanding The 5 Elements of Your Life

Practice Sankofa

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Once you understand who you are and why you are here, it is important for you to understand the past.

Sankofa is a Twi word from the Akan people that translates roughly as ‘go back and fetch it’. In other words, go back to the past to pick up the lessons you may have dropped along the way.

When we study our history, we come to understand how we got here, what worked and what didn’t work for our Ancestors, and what the future may be like if we repeat our mistakes.

Sankofa is more than the mere study of Black history. Studying history for the mere purpose of learning facts about people and places is useless.

Sankofa is cultural recovery and remembrance of ancient visions and values directed toward grounding and enriching our lives in the present day, while advancing the interests of our liberation struggle.

So when you ‘go back and fetch it’, you see the stories of the past as lessons that you can apply to your life in the present.

You are less likely to make the same mistakes that your ancestors made, and you are more likely to build on their legacies of success.

Learn Swahili

The definition of a nation according to Black’s Law Dictionary is:

“A people, or aggregation of men, existing in the form of an organized jural society, inhabiting a distinct portion of the Earth, speaking the same language, using the same customs, possessing historic continuity, and distinguished from other like groups by their racial origin and characteristics, and generally, but not necessarily, living under the same government and sovereignty.”

One of the biggest barriers to African unity is our language barrier – if we can’t communicate, we can’t coordinate.

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Therefore as an organization and a movement, our official language is Kiswahili – one of the most widely spoken languages on the African continent.

There are anywhere from 50 million to over 100 million Kiswahili speakers. That means with a population of 1.2 Billion, more than 10 percent of the African population already shares the same language.

Learning a new language will help you connect with the millions of other Pan-Africans who already speak the language, and it will make you a better, more intelligent communicator too.

Self-Educate

Most of what you need to know on your path cannot and is not being taught in the public school system. That means you will need to take responsibility for educating yourself.

But that raises another problem: There is an infinite amount of information available, and that can quickly lead to information overload.

Where should you start? What should you read? Should you learn from books, podcasts, or Youtube?

Here are my two suggestions:

  1. Only focus on learning what you need to know to achieve your life’s purpose. Astronomy may be interesting to you, but if your area of focus is economics, then its best to focus on topics related to the latter rather than the former.
  2. Only use learning methods that you can give the most of your attention to with the least amount of distraction. In other words, if you can do something else while you are studying, that learning method is not the best way to absorb knowledge. For example, if you can watch a youtube video and do chores at the same time, your attention is divided and you are less likely to learn whatever you are watching.

Podcasts and youtube videos can be entertaining, but you will learn much more (and much faster) by reading. Thats why we created a list of the 12 Scrolls every member of our community should read.

For the course on how to develop your life mission, click here

Click here for the 12 Scrolls every member of our community should read.

Make a choice. Take a stand.

Join hundreds of scholars, warriors, and activists from around the world by becoming a member of the Pan-African Alliance. Together, we can create the future of Black history!

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