The University Programs Council Black Student Awareness Committee has one more event for the Fall 2011 semester.  The Kwanzaa Celebration will be held on Thursday, December 1 in Heritage Hall Room 102 at 7:00 PM.  There will be FREE FOOD available and also a guest speaker.

Kwanzaa is an African American and Pan-African holiday which celebrates family, community and culture.  Celebrated from December 26 to January 1, its origins are in the first harvest celebrations of Africa from which it takes its name.  the name Kwanzaa is is derived from the phrase “matunda ya kwanza” which means “first fruits” in Swahili, a Pan-African language which is the most widely  spoken African language.

The first-fruits celebrations are recorded in African history as far back as ancient Egypt and Nubia and appear in ancient and modern times in other classical African civilizations such as Ashantiland and Yorubaland. These celebrations are also found in ancient and modern times among societies as large as empires (the Zulu or kingdoms (Swaziland) or smaller societies and groups like the Matabele, Thonga and Lovedu, all of southeastern Africa. Kwanzaa builds on the five fundamental activities of Continental African “first fruit” celebrations: ingathering; reverence; commemoration; recommitment; and celebration.

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