Kwanzaa was conceived, created and introduced to the African community as an audacious act of self-determination. - Maulana Karenga

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Kwanzaa was conceived, created and introduced to the African community as an audacious act of self-determination.

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About Maulana Karenga

Maulana Karenga (born on 14 July 1941) is a black nationalist and pan-African scholar and activist. In the 1960s he established the cultural organization US, invented the Kwanzaa celebration, and introduced the Kawaida system of Afrocentric moral philosophy. After serving a prison sentence for felony assault in the early 1970s, he earned two doctorates and became the Africana Studies department chair at the California State University, Long Beach.

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Birth Name: Ronald McKinley Everett
Alternative Names: Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga Ron Karenga
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