12/26/2025
Habari Gani? Is the greeting for Kwanzaa which is Swahili for "What's the news?" or "How are you?" Kwanzaa was not created to give people an alternative to their own religion or religious holiday. Many African Americans who celebrate Kwanzaa do so in addition to observing Christmas. Every year, around Christmas time, you may hear some Black folks talking about celebrating Kwanzaa, many of them jokingly because they don't know the history or roots behind the holiday. Kwanzaa spans over seven days from December 26 to January 1 as a celebration of cultural heritage and traditional values, With each day focusing on a specific principle in the Black community.
Umoja (Unity):To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
2. Kujichagulia (Self-Determination):
To define and name ourselves, as well as to create and speak for ourselves.
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 hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
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