Celebrating Kwanzaa
/Kwanzaa is a celebration of African American culture created in 1966 by Maulana Karenga to promote black culture. Across the Bay Area you will find Kwanzaa celebrations beginning on Tuesday, December 26, 2023 and lasts through Monday, January 1, 2024. For one week, every day is dedicated to an act of cultural discovery and to help enhance knowledge of African heritage and history. Enjoy this wrap up of ideas to celebrate the holiday.
Wishing you a very Happy Kwanzaa!
BAY AREA EVENTS CELEBRATING KWANZAA
NGUZO SABA - THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES
Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one of the following principles, as follows:
Umoja
Unity
To strive for and to maintain unity in the family and community.
Kujichagulia
Self-determination
To define and name ourselves, as well as to create and speak for ourselves.
Ujima
Collective work and responsibility
To build and maintain our community together.
Ujamaa
Cooperative economics
To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
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
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
Faith
To believe with all our hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
