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Why Kwanzaa?
Kwanzaa is an authentic African Holiday created in the African Diaspora. It is becoming part of traditional African American, and African diaspora cultural heritage. All holidays have the roots somewhere, and Kwanzaa is an indigenous African American creation.
“We must carve out of the hard rock of reality the place we want to stand on and leave as a legacy for those who come after us”
Dr. Maulana Karenga
As an African American and Pan-African holiday celebrated by millions throughout the world African community, Kwanzaa brings a cultural message, which speaks to the best of what it means to be African and human in the fullest sense. Given the profound significance Kwanzaa has for African Americans and indeed, the world African community.
Kwanzaa is a cultural holiday, celebrated from December 26 to January 1, which is profound because it reclaims what was lost during the African Holocaust—that sense of an African connection. It replies to the ongoing mental slavery experienced from the Diaspora being culturally orphaned in the West.
Kwanzaa is an authentic African Holiday created in the African Diaspora. It is becoming part of traditional African American, and African diaspora cultural heritage. All holidays have the roots somewhere, and Kwanzaa is an indigenous African American creation.
•Umoja (Unity):
To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
•Kujichagulia (Self-Determination):
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves stand up.
•Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility):
To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems, and to solve them together.
•Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics):
To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
•Nia (Purpose):
To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
•Kuumba (Creativity):
To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
•Imani (Faith):
To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
Dr. Maulana Karenga
As an African American and Pan-African holiday celebrated by millions throughout the world African community, Kwanzaa brings a cultural message, which speaks to the best of what it means to be African and human in the fullest sense. Given the profound significance Kwanzaa has for African Americans and indeed, the world African community.
Kwanzaa is a cultural holiday, celebrated from December 26 to January 1, which is profound because it reclaims what was lost during the African Holocaust—that sense of an African connection. It replies to the ongoing mental slavery experienced from the Diaspora being culturally orphaned in the West.
Kwanzaa is an authentic African Holiday created in the African Diaspora. It is becoming part of traditional African American, and African diaspora cultural heritage. All holidays have the roots somewhere, and Kwanzaa is an indigenous African American creation.
•Umoja (Unity):
To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
•Kujichagulia (Self-Determination):
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves stand up.
•Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility):
To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems, and to solve them together.
•Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics):
To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
•Nia (Purpose):
To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
•Kuumba (Creativity):
To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
•Imani (Faith):
To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
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