12/26/2023
from us!
12/26 Day 1- (Unity): maintaining unity as a family, community, and race of people.
Day 2 - (Self-Determination): defining, naming, creating, and speaking for ourselves.
Day 3 - (Collective Work and Responsibility): building and maintaining our community—solving problems together.
Day 4- (Cooperative Economics: building and maintaining retail stores and other businesses and to profit from these ventures.
Day 5 - (Purpose): work collectively to build communities that will restore the greatness of African people.
Day 6- (Creativity): to find new, innovative ways to leave communities of African descent in more beautiful and beneficial ways than the community inherited.
Day 7 - (Faith): the belief in God, family, heritage, leaders, and others that will leave to the victory of Africans around the world.
Kwanzaa was founded in 1966 in the United States by activist and educator Dr. Maulana Karenga. Stemming from his Kawaida philosophy of cultural and social change, Karenga created the seven principles, Nguzo Saba, as the cornerstone of the holiday observed by African Americans and the African diaspora. Each night, those who celebrate Kwanzaa not only light a candle, but look inwardly as they contemplate the theme of the day. (Source: Oprah Daily)
