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CELEBRATE KWANZAA

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DO YOU CELEBRATE KWANZAAHere's how to tell.

If you answer YES to any of the following questions then you practice the principles of Kwanzaa

Do you strive to maintain unity in your family

Do you set goals and act upon them firmly in spite of opposition or difficulty

Do you help your friends at work, church, school, or in your community

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DO YOU CELEBRATE KWANZAAHere's how to tell

If you answer YES …Do you belong to any organization that

strives to make your neighborhoods clean, and safe

Do you help plan, participate, organize or support activities that benefit our children

Do you believe that YOU CAN make a difference

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KWANZAA Dr. Maulana Karenga created Kwanzaa in

1966 focused on African/African-Americans celebrating themselves and their history, rather than simply imitating the practices of the dominant society

As an African/African American celebration Kwanzaa brings a cultural message speaking to the best of what it means to be African/African American and human in the fullest sense

The original time frame for the ceremony and celebration is December twenty six (26) through January one (1) in any given year

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KWANZAA

The name KWANZAA derives from the Swahili phrase "matunda ya kwanza", "first fruits”

Swahili language evolved out of East Africa regions colonized by Dutch (Holland, Germany, Netherlands), Middle Easterners, Indians, and Portuguese; with its core emanating from the BANTU people of that region

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KWANZAA…organized around five

fundamental activities: the gathering of family, friends, and

community; reverence for the Elders and

Ancestors commemoration for the past, learning

lessons and emulating achievements of historical figures;

commitment to the highest cultural ideals, for example, truth, justice, respect for people and nature, care for the vulnerable, and

celebration of the “Good of Life”

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KWANZAA

Kwanzaa is celebrated through rituals, dialogue, narratives, poetry, dancing, singing, drumming and other music and feasting

Central practices are the Pouring of Libation

Lighting of the Mishumaa (seven candles) of Kwanzaa

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KWANZAACentral

practice is the Pouring of Libation

Tamshi La Tambiko Means Libation statement

The pouring of a liquid in reverence to our ancestors is an intricate part of the celebration

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KWANZAA

The philosophy behind the creation of Kwanzaa is KAWAIDA

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KWANZAA

Kawaida is a philosophy of culture and social change

Defines culture as most important component in positive developing of people

Marcus Garvey, quoting an African Proverb said, “A people that do not know their own history are like a tree without roots”

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DO YOU CELEBRATE KWANZAA?

Lighting of the Mishumaa (7 candles) of Kwanzaa

Suggested goals

Restore lost history and culture

Serve as moral guide for community

Contribute to the development of African centered values

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KWANZAANGUZO SABA

The Seven Principles found in the practice of Kwanzaa

LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES

December 26

UNITY to strive for and maintain unity in the family, community,

nation

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Serve as moral guides for the community

Family unity maintaining family identity

and togetherness balancing family priorities

with support for individual needs

creating daily routines as well as special traditions and celebrations

affirming members, connecting to family roots

is a feeling that all can depend on each other in “good” times and “bad” times.

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KWANZAANGUZO SABA

LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES

December 27

(KOO-GEE-CHA-GOO-LEE-YAH) SELF-DETERMINATION

requires that we define ourselves, name ourselves,

create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.

KUJICHAGULIA

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Restore lost history and culture Enslavers came with two great

weapons, gun and bible. If you were not humbled by their “one and only god” you were pummeled to death by their guns

They engaged in a method of mental conditioning called “memory replacement”.

Our’ memories “lifted out” enslavers’ memory inserted in

That’s why people of African heritage living in the United States can not remember their connection to the continent Al-kebulan (Africa)

As a people of African Heritage we must recover our memory, history, culture, our ways of behaving

We must reconstruct the best of our History and Culture

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Restore lost history and culture

Particularly as a group, called African Americans, we have not looked at ourselves “naturally” since the psycho-social historical trauma of enslavement took place

We have taken the naturalistic observation of Euro-American scientist and their armchair theorizing and have arbitrarily attributed that reality and those hypothesis to ourselves

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KWANZAANGUZO SABA

LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES

December 28

(OO-GEE-MAH) COLLECTIVE WORK AND

RESPONSIBILITY) To build and maintain our

community together and to make our Brother's and Sister's

problems, our problems and to solve them together

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COLLECTIVE WORK AND RESPONSIBILITY African is not just an identity, but also a destiny and

duty, i.e., a responsibility, in other words, our collective identity is a collective future

There is a need and obligation for us as self-conscious and committed people to shape our future with our own minds and hands and share its hardships and benefits together, we are collectively responsible for our failures and setbacks as well as our victories and achievements

As long as any African anywhere is oppressed, exploited, enslaved or wounded in any way in her or his humanity, the principle rejects the possibility or desirability of individual freedom in any unfree context

We are each cultural representatives of our people and have no right to misrepresent them, or willfully do less than is demanded of us by our history and must accept and live the principle of shared or collective work and responsibility in all things good, right and beneficial to community.

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DO YOU CELEBRATE KWANZAA?NGUZO SABA

LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES

December 29

(OO-JAH-MAH) COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS)

To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together

UJAMAA

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COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS A commitment to the practice of shared social wealth

and the work necessary to achieve it. Social wealth belongs to the masses of people who

created it; no one should have such an unequal amount of wealth that it gives him/her the capacity to impose unequal, exploitative or oppressive conditions on others

Without the principle and practice of shared wealth, the social conditions for exploitation, oppression and inequality as well as deprivation and suffering are increased.

Don’t shop, purchase, frequent, and contend with people, structures, or elements where you are NOT treated or served with dignity or represented in employment

Do not support any person, place or thing where ethnicity, class, and gender makes a difference where treatment make a difference

If there is doubt do without

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KWANZAANGUZO SABA

LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES

December 30

(NEE-YAH) PURPOSE To make our collective

vocation the building and developing of our community in

order to restore our people to their traditional greatness

NIA

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DERIVING PURPOSE FROM CULTURAL HISTORICAL IDENTITY

The principle of Nia makes us conscious of our purpose in light of our historical and cultural identity

It is this identity which gives us an overriding cultural purpose and suggests a direction

Cultural and historical identity is a necessary reference to and focus on generational responsibility

African philosophy teaches, we are first and foremost social beings whose reality and relevance are rooted in the quality and the kinds of relations we have with each other

A cooperative communal vocation is an excellent context and encouragement for quality social relations

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KWANZAANGUZO SABA

LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES

December 31

(KOO-OOM-BAH) is the special spirit of creativity

and ingenuity that affirms the contributions of our ancestors, our entire community, and influential

leaders

KUUMBA

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PRACTICE CREATIVITY EVERY DAY

The Principle has both a social and spiritual dimension and is deeply rooted both in social and sacred teachings of African societies

Commitment to being creative within the context of the national community means leaving our community more beneficial and beautiful than we, i.e., each generation, inherited it

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KWANZAANGUZO SABA

LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES

January 1

(EE-MAH-NEE) FAITH To believe with all our heart

in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the

righteousness and victory of our struggle

IMANI

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FAITH IN OURSELVES IS KEYEssentially a profound belief in and

commitment to all that is of value to us as a family, community, people and culture

This logically leads to a belief in the essential goodness and possibility of the human personality

Let us dare struggle, free ourselves politically and culturally and raise images above the earth that reflect our capacity for human progress and greatness

EDUCATE: Yourself, Children, A Generation

KWANZAA is practiced all year long

Make it a part of your LIFESTYLE.

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CELEBRATE: KWANZAA

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