This has got to be the best Kwanzaa song to date that Kamal Imani aka Kamal Supreme has created and one of the best out there. You can dance and be edutained for over 7 minutes with a real feel good afro house music vibe. Enjoy! Happy Kwanzaa!
lyrics
This Kwanzaa song includes a brief and an extensive break down of the 7 Principles of Kwanzaa by Dr. Maulana Karenga as well as a wonderful song that the entire family can dance to and enjoy.
The Nguzo Saba
1.Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
2.Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves.
3.Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems, and to solve them together.
4.Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
5.Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
6.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.
7.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.
Kwanzaa symbols include a decorative mat (Mkeka) on which other symbols are placed: corn (Mahindi) and other crops, a candle holder kinara with seven candles (Mishumaa Saba), a communal cup for pouring libation (Kikombe cha Umoja), gifts (Zawadi), a poster of the seven principles, and a black, red, and green flag. The symbols were designed to convey the seven principles.
credits
from Happy Kwanzaa,
track released September 24, 2015
Written and Produced by Kamal Imani aka Kamal Supreme
Bless the Mic LLC/RevolutionaryArt Innertainment
Rezawrectaz Music ASCAP
Kamal Supreme is an internationally known Hip Hop Legend and dance music producer, spoken word performance poet and hip hop
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