Days of Kwanzaa - Founder's Message

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The Founder's Welcome

Kwanzaa founder Dr. Maulana Karenga

As an African American and Pan-African holiday celebrated by
millions throughout the world African community, Kwanzaa brings a
cultural message which speaks to the best of what it means to be
African and human in the fullest sense.

Given the profound significance Kwanzaa has for African Americans
and indeed, the world African community, it is imperative that an
authoritative source and site be made available to give an
accurate and expansive account of its origins, concepts, values,
symbols and practice.

Moreover, given the continued rapid growth of Kwanzaa and the
parallel expanded discussion of it and related issues, an
authoritative source which aids in both framing and informing the
discussion is likewise of the greatest importance. Therefore, the
central interest of this website is to provide information which
reveals and reaffirms the integrity, beauty and expansive meaning
of the holiday and thus aids in our approaching it with the depth
of thought, dignity, and sense of special-ness it deserves.

The holiday, then will of necessity, be engaged as an ancient and
living cultural tradition which reflects the best of African
thought and practice in its reaffirmation of the dignity of the
human person in community and culture, the well-being of family
and community, the integrity of the environment and our kinship
with it, and the rich resource and meaning of a people's culture.

It is within this understanding, then, that the Organization Us,
the founding organization of Kwanzaa and the authoritative keeper
of the tradition, has established and maintains this website.

Dr. Maulana Karenga
The Creator of Kwanzaa

http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/
http://www.globalindex.com/kwanzaa/