❤️🖤💚 @kwanzaachat . Habari Gani! The 5th day of #Kwanzaa is #Nia, #Purpose! Make sure Nia/Purpose centers everything you do. Don't move an inch without understanding what your purpose is and why it matters. Spend your energy doing, building, thinking, creating things that will not only benefit you, but will benefit others. Living your purpose boldly, without fear, will give others room to do the same. Lean on #Nia, always. Five flames. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #Kwanzaa #KwanzaaChat #7Principles #NguzoSaba #HabariGani #Kwanzaa365 #HappyKwanzaa #Kwanzaa2020 #AfricanaStudies #CelebrateKwanzaa #BlackLivesMatter #BlackHistory #Africana #Sankofa #Ashe #Ase Visuals: @sovereignnewell of @sovereignmade https://www.instagram.com/littlehaitifieldtrips/p/CYImgtotCWL/?utm_medium=tumblr
Kwanzaa is a seven day festival that celebrates African and African American culture and history. Kwanzaa takes place from 26th December to 1st January. ________ The name Kwanzaa comes from the phrase 'matunda ya kwanza' which means 'first fruits' in the Swahili language (an Eastern African language spoken in countries including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique and Zimbabwe). Kwanzaa is mostly celebrated in the USA. ________ During Kwanzaa a special candle holder called a kinara is used. A kinara hold seven candles, three red ones on the left, three green ones on the right with a black candle in the center. Each night during Kwanzaa a candle is lit. The black, center, candle is lit first and then it alternates between the red and green candles stating with the ones on the outside and moving inwards. ________ The seven days and candles in Kwanzaa represent the seven principles of Kwanzaa (Nguzo Saba): * Umoja: Unity - Unity of the family, community, nation and race * Kujichagulia: Self-Determination - Being responsible for your own conduct and behaviour * Ujima: Collective work and responsibility - Working to Help each other and in the community * Ujamaa: Cooperative economics - Working to build shops and businesses * Nia: Purpose - Remembering and restoring African and African American cultures, customs and history * Kuumba: Creativity - Using creating and your imagination to make communities better * Imani: Faith - Believing in people, families, leaders, teachers and the righteousness of the African American struggle #kwanzaa #culture #community #7principles #celebrate @brownstonersbedstuyhousetour (at Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6igXuiFlpz/?igshid=1r3ps6irm9659
This technique to teach the #7Principles (to the tune of "Do Re Mi") was after my time 😄 #nerds #UULife (at Northwoods Unitarian Universalist Church) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1mGCQkg65FLrNAR-kSI02JPjpEC8v1Ozr2AR00/?igshid=1jc792akcnz43
#kwanzaa books & sets now available at Nicholas Brooklyn Get it while supplies last! #7principles #nia #umoja #ujima #holidays #holidayseason (at Nicholas Brooklyn) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWGxJfEvwT7/?utm_medium=tumblr