NIA! | Day 5 of Kwanzaa 2024 with Dr. Maulana Karenga

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The principle for Dec. 30 is Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.

Dr. Maulana Karenga is the creator of the PanAfrican cultural holiday Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba--(The Seven Principles) and author of the authoritative text entitled Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture.

He is professor and chair of department of Africana Studies at California State University—Long Beach. He is chair of the Organization Us and the National Association of Kawaida Organizations. He is Executive director of the African American Cultural Center and theKawaida Institute of Pan-African Studies. Dr. Karenga is co-chair of the Black Community, Clergy and Labor Alliance (BCCLA). Dr. Karenga is also the author of numerous scholarly articles and books including:

•Kawaida and Questions of Life and Struggle

• Maat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African Ethics

• Selections from the Husia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient Egypt

• Introduction to Black Studies, 4th Edition

• Odu Ifa: The Ethical Teachings

Dr. Karenga s the subject of the book by Dr. Molefi Asante entitled: Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait.

Dr. Karenga he is currently writing a major work on Haji Malcolm X entitled: The Liberation Ethics of Haji Malcolm X: Critical Consciousness, Moral Grounding and Transformative Struggle.

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