Kwanzaa

Name: Kwanzaa
Start: 2024-12-26T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-01-01T23:59:59+00:00

December 26, 2024 - January 1, 2025

Kwanzaa

✨🖤 Celebrating Kwanzaa: Honoring Heritage, Unity, and Culture 🌍✊🏾

From December 26 to January 1, we come together to celebrate Kwanzaa, a vibrant and meaningful tribute to African-American culture and heritage. Created by Dr. Maulana Karenga in 1966, this week-long celebration is inspired by African harvest traditions and centers around the Nguzo Saba (Seven Principles): Umoja (Unity), Kujichagulia (Self-Determination), Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility), Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics), Nia (Purpose), Kuumba (Creativity), and Imani (Faith). 🌟

Kwanzaa is a time to reflect on our shared history, honor our ancestors, and strengthen the bonds within our families and communities. It culminates in a beautiful feast of faith—Karamu Ya Imani, where we celebrate the resilience and richness of our culture. 🍴✨

Let’s light the candles, share stories, and uplift the principles that guide us toward unity and progress. 🕯️🤝🏾 This Kwanzaa, we embrace our roots and step boldly into the future with pride and purpose.

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Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one of the principles, as follows:

Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family and community.
Kujichagulia (Self-determination): To define and name ourselves, as well as to create 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 our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.