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Active or dormant crucial knowledge: Which generates enduring humanning benefits?


Meki Nzewi

Abstract

Humans have for ever created and advanced knowledge valuable to existence. Performative interaction of virtuous knowledge guarantees its validity, viability, preservation, advancement and propagation as a worthy human legacy that will forever enable, endure and endear human survival if cherished and sustained. To imprison, abandon, or relegate humanning knowledge integrity in preference for fashionable inventions, smacks of irrational brilliance and, no matter how outwardly captivating, debilitates the humanity essence. Modern physical archiving in exclusive/restrictive locations in preference to interactive regenerative conservation is disingenuous. African musical art is a robustly purposive, humanning knowledge agency, and foremost intrepid life overseer. It preserved crucial knowledge in human memory, interactively making it beneficial to all mankind within and beyond its cultural domain. To what advantage, therefore, is esoteric documentation of indigenous African music for exclusive classroom availability or as inactivated publications? For what purpose is storing indigenous African music as dormant preservation? These perturbations query the sense of indulging exotic documentation and archiving geniuses, which are modes of obscuring and silencing the proactive humanning lore. Rather, persuasive advocacy is imperative for cognitively researching, reactivating and performatively propagating the humanning integrity of the pristine knowledge realm. This mission entails reinstating, advancing and applying its humanity benefits in contemporary cultural, national, and international existential interactions. Such a governance policy action will reestablish the divine societal role of the musical arts to sober inhumane mental overdrives; oversee public morality; engineer inter-cultural amity; instill fellow-humanity conscience; stimulate mass mind wellness; and inspire stress-less living, learning, and productivity. Preservation that accomplishes these humanning essentialities, while accommodating modern literacy imperative, is the advocated sensible and essential human archiving.


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