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Kwanzaa is a cultural holiday, celebrated from December 26 to January 1, created by the legendary professor of Africana
Studies , activist and author, Maulana Karenga. The sole purpose of this holiday was to help African-Americans to reconnect to their African roots. And served as a symbol of Pan-Africanism. It also reflects on the seven principles of
Kwanzaa, or Nguzo Saba (originally Nguzu Saba —the seven principles of African Heritage):
1. Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family,
community, nation, and race.
2.Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves stand up.
3.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.
4. Ujamaa ( Cooperative Economics ): To build and maintain our own
stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
5.Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and
developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
6. 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.
7. 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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