What is kwanza?

Exactly what's Kwanza?

  • You hear it all the time, and almost all the people i know don't know what Kwanza is... What is Kwanza, what religion is it, what country is it??? How do people celebrate Kwanza

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    Kwanzaa is a non-religious African American holiday which celebrates family, community, and culture. It is celebrated for seven days: December 26 - January 1. The name Kwanzaa is derived from the phrase "matunda ya kwanza" which means "first fruits" in Swahili. The kinara is the center of the Kwanzaa setting and represents the original stalk from which we came: our ancestry.

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It's something that the "African" nation developed to separate themselves further from the "evil" white man. Every person I have ever asked has said that they do not know what Kwanza is and do not know anybody who celebrates it unless it can get them out of work or school.

dluv1126

Isn't it like African?

jordanpeters99

"In 1966 Ron Karenga (who at the time still went by his given name Ronald Everett) created Kwanzaa while living in California[2]. There, he was the leader of the black nationalist United Slaves Organization (also known as the "US Organization" in order to differentiate between "US" and "THEM"), and claims that his goal was to give African Americans an alternative holiday to Christmas. He later stated, "...it was chosen to give a Black alternative to the existing holiday and give Blacks an opportunity to celebrate themselves and history, rather than simply imitate the practice of the dominant society. In 1967, a year after Karenga proposed this new holiday, he publicly espoused the view that "Jesus was psychotic" and that Christianity was a white religion that blacks should shun." These principles correspond to Karenga's notion that "the sevenfold path of blackness is think black, talk black, act black, create black, buy black, vote black, and live black." And the US Government printed a stamp? Wow.

rocket_man39

Its a celebration in africa in which the acts of kwanza are celebrated by the harvesting in the earlier months. In a easier sentance, they celebrate because they had a good harvest season.

Decimus King

They push on kids in the schools, along with Hannukah. It is informative to know about, but even the kids are like, "who celebrates kwannza?" A lot adults don't even know someone who does. It is obvious they are trying to be politically correct, all the while cancelling christmas parties, and having winter parties. So sad..... You do hear it all the time, like it is supposed to be a normal occurance among people in our country, the USA ,but it just isn't. So, sorry I cannot answer it better, just wanted you to know, its a mystery to me as well.

oceansnsunsets

malcolm x created it, it's a holiday to celebrate african heritage, they have some sort of candle lighting similar to a menorah but for different reasons. there are something like 2 red candles 2 green candles and 1 black candle and each different color is supposed to represent something, I don't really know much about it but it isn't for any religion or country and it was created not too long ago.

Mary M

a made up holiday. check out wikipedia.org. sad really

bkebrian

It's spelled Kwanzaa. It is an African-American holiday, look it up on Google.

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