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Celebrate Kwanzaa
Celebrate The Seven Principals of Kwanzaa
Celebrate Education
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Means welcome
.
Ntoo mu Amadou Bamba le ti (Mandinka)My name is Amadou Bamba AKA Dr. David PiperI will guide you through this presentation
Kukaribisha
The name Kwanzaa derives from the Swahili phrase "matunda ya kwanza", meaning "first fruits.” The choice of Swahili, a language with its roots based in East Africa Regions, reflects its status as a symbol of Pan-Africanism, especially reflective of 1960s.
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Kwanzaa is organized around five fundamental activities:
Celebrate Kwanzaa
the
gathering of family, friends, and community;
reverence for the Elders and Ancestorscommemoration for the past, learning lessons and emulating achievements of African/African American historical figures;recommitment to the highest cultural ideals, for example, truth, justice, respect for people and nature, care for the vulnerable, andcelebration of the “Good of Life”
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Celebrate Kwanzaa
Kwanzaa
is celebrated through rituals, dialogue, narratives, poetry, dancing, singing, drumming and other music and
feastingA central practice is the lighting of the Mishumaa (seven candles) of Kwanzaa. A candle is lit each day for each of the Nguzo Saba (Seven Principals)
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DO YOU CELEBRATE KWANZAA?
Do
you strive to maintain unity in your
familyDo you set goals and act upon them firmly in spite of opposition or difficultyDo you help your friends at work, church, school, or in your communityDo you patronize African/African American owned businesses, i.e., barber and beauty salons, restaurants, or clothing stores, etc.
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DO YOU CELEBRATE
KWANZAA
Do you belong to any organization that strive 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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DO YOU CELEBRATE 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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Fundamental
values found in the practice of
Kwanzaa
NGUZO SABAThe Seven Principles
LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES
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First candle is lit on December
26 of any given year
UMOJA
LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES
(OO-MO-JAH)
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
Strong families is a feeling that all can depend on each other in “good” times and “bad” times.
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KUJICHAGULIA
LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES
(
KOO-GEE-CHA-GOO-LEE-
YAH)SELF-DETERMINATIONrequires that we define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.
Second candle is lit on December 27 of any given year
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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 ourselvesThat’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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Education
is
Healthy
Education promotes a positive self image: confidence provides enriched life experience and mental well beingEducation provides lifelong learning: increases brain cells and decreases Alzheimer’s and other degenerative brain conditions due to age
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Third
candle is lit on December
28 of any given year
UJIMA
LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES
(
OO-GEE-MAH)COLLECTIVE WORK AND RESPONSIBILITYthe principle that reminds us of our obligation and responsibility to supporting our society
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Education is Social Networking
Education helps to develop new interests
Education promotes lifelong friends including teachers, counselors and others who assist in guiding and planning
Education helps to decide a profession or field of interest; it even provides opportunities to “test drive” a profession
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Commit
Social Responsibility to the Future and to Future Generations
Education
is the Great Equalizer for Ethnic and Socio-economic conditions – it balances lifeEducation is Fun and is a Lifestyle/The Journey is Lifelong
Celebrate Education
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Fourth
candle is lit on December
29 of any given year
UJAMAA
LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES
(OO-JAH-MAH)COOPERATIVE ECONOMICSTo build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.
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COOPERATIVE
ECONOMICS
Essentially
a commitment to
the practice
of shared social wealth and the work
necessary
to achieve
it.
It
grows out of the fundamental
communal
concept that social wealth belongs to the
masses
of people who created it and that no one
should have
such an unequal amount of wealth that it gives
him/her
the capacity to impose
unequal, exploitative or
oppressive relations on
others
It
is
essential because
without the principle and practice of
shared wealth
. the social conditions for
exploitation oppression
and inequality as well as deprivation and
suffering are
increased.
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Fifth
candle is lit on December
30 of any given year
NIA
LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES
(NEE-AH)PURPOSE To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
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Education Develops Life Skills
Technology
Rights as a citizen: voting, issues, environment
Reasoning skills that help in decision making, relationships, moral judgments, tolerance, reflection, and communication
Education helps to “walk in another’s
shoes”
Education provides a safe place to practice skills before entering the workplace
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Sixth
candle is lit on December
31 of any given year
KUUMBA
LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES
(KOO-OOM-BAH) is the special spirit of creativity and ingenuity that affirms the contributions of our ancestors, our entire community, and influential leaders.
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Most will change careers at least four times within a lifetime
The future will use technology not yet invented
The future will have access to information at all times in all places
The top ten in demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004By 2018 the United States will need 22 million new college degrees-but will fall short of that number by at least 3 million postsecondary degreesBy 2018 the United States will need at least 4.7 million new workers with postsecondary certificates
The Future and Education
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Seventh
candle is lit on
January 1 of any given year
IMANI
LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES
(KOO-OOM-BAH)is the special spirit of creativity and ingenuity that affirms the contributions of our ancestors, our entire community, and influential leaders.
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Fiscal and Personal Health
A Lifelong Network of Professional and Personal Friends
Develops Life Skills That Can be Passed on to Family and Community
