AFRiCAN OPTiMiSM iS very RiCH in definition, once understood, it also enriched the individual! It is a productive term that is rooted in honor & in dignity,  thereby perpetually producing similar fruits & results.  It is a natural paradigm of thinking while  promising the best outcome for individual thinking & for "group think" or group thought.  It is a cultural value that governs ones’ outlook for empowerment and  productive activity in any life endeavor.  It is a creative mental attitude that directs personal thinking & action in ways that lead to respectable consequences, powerfully effective results & to distinctive elevated positions in this life.  It is a cultural ancestral endowment from a spiritual disposition, producing a natural dignified human mind-set.  It is a distinctive human quality from our DNA that emanates from inherent self worth & human self esteem, as it naturally & continually creates more, higher & greater self worth & self esteem. It is the obvious catalyst needed for ongoing cultural empowerment, inner drive & group dignity in the Pan-African Quest & in the evolving & developing unfoldment within the human family. It fertilizes the garden of the mind, the heart and the spirit, enabling the healthy growth of ones noble & honorable thoughts, concepts, ideas and realizations.