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Nguzo Saba
Nguzo Saba
The Seven Principals of Kwanzaa

Umoja
Umoja (Unity)
To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
Kujichagulia
Kujichagulia (Self-Determination)
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.
Ujima
Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility)
To build and maintain our community together and make our brother's and sister's problems our problems and to solve them together.
Ujamaa
Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics)
To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.
Nia
Nia (Purpose)
To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
Kuumba
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.
Imani
Imani (Faith)
To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.


­ Maulana Karenga

 

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The Black Candle: A Kwanzaa Celebration
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Unrated
Actors: Maya Angelou, Chuck D
Directors: M.K. Asante Jr.
Producers: M.K. Asante Jr., Ben Haaz
Format: NTSC, Color, Widescreen
Region: All Regions
Studio: Asante Filmworx
Run Time: 71 minutes

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The Black Candle is a landmark, vibrant documentary that uses Kwanzaa as a vehicle to celebrate the African-American experience. Narrated by renowned poet Maya Angelou and directed by award-winning author and filmmaker M.K. Asante, Jr., The Black Candle is an extraordinary, inspirational story about the struggle and triumph of African-American family, community, and culture. Filmed across the United States, Africa, Europe and the Caribbean, The Black Candle is a timely illumination on why the seven principles of Kwanzaa are so important to African-Americans today. The first feature film on Kwanzaa, The Black Candle traces the holiday's growth out of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s to its present-day reality as a global, pan-African holiday embraced by over 40 million celebrants. With vivid cinematography and an all star cast that features the best and brightest from the hip-hop and the civil rights generations, The Black Candle is more than a film about a holiday: it's a celebration of a people!

 

Kwanzaa!  African Lives in a new world festival
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http://aalbc.com/kwanzaa!.htm

THE OFFICIAL KWANZAA WEB SITE
http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/

 

 

 










 


 

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