"Kawaida and Questions of Life and Struggle" by Maulana Karenga

Hotep (An Afrikan Word for Peace)!!! Take notes!!!!!!!!!! Kawaida and Afrocentricity are two of the most important philosophical foundations for the redevelopment of an Afrikan centered world-view. They both work to help liberate Black people from all forms of White domination. Dr. Maulana Karanga, Professor of Black Studies at California State University at Long Beach. He co-founded the Us Organization-a revolutionary cultural nationalist Black Power movement established on September 7, 1965 in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Karenga is also the creator of Kawaida. It is a Kiswahili word meaning "tradition" and "reason," pronounced ka-wa-EE-da. He defines Kawaida as, "a communitarian African (Afrikan) philosophy created in the context of the African (Afrikan) American liberation struggle and developed as an ongoing synthesis of the best of African (Afrikan) thought and practice in constant exchange with the world." Kawaida is the foundation for Kwanzaa - An Pan Afrikan centered hol