The Celebration of Kwanzaa

Hey, Ive been asked about Kwanzaa. I know about it but do I really know about it. Since my knowledge of Kwanzaa is limited. Wanted to take the time to share it with others. Im one of those who like to stay informed no matter what it is. So wanted to take the time to share this week-long celebration with you. So you will have the full understanding of why people celebrate Kwanzaa. This celebration honors African heritage in African-American culture, and is observed from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a feast and gift-giving.


Kwanzaa celebrates what its founder called the seven principles of Kwanzaa, or Nguzo Saba (originally Nguzu Saba—the seven principles of African Heritage), which Karenga said "is a communitarian African philosophy," consisting of what Karenga called "the best of African thought and practice in constant exchange with the world." These seven principles comprise *Kawaida, a Swahili term for tradition and reason. Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one of the following principles, as follows:

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.
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 hearts in God, our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.

Hope this has been helpful to you, this is just a little info Ive found, the link is below so you can read more about it. Feel free to click on the link to get a even better understanding of Kwanzaa. Thanks and as always feel free to comment on this blog post.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa

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