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Celebrate Kwanzaa

Holidays Around The World
Celebrate Kwanzaa
Celebrate Kwanzaa
  • Forfattere: Carolyn Otto , National Geographic KIds
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 32
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • Serienavn: Holidays Around The World
  • EAN: 9781426328497
  • Utgivelsesår: 2017
  • Bidragsyter: Otto, Carolyn; National Geographic Kids
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Celebrate Kwanzaa continues the spectacular Holidays Around the World series by focusing on this African-American holiday, which falls during the festive, gift-giving season and is celebrated by families, communities, and schools throughout America. With succinct, lively text and beautiful photographs, the book celebrates African-American culture and helps us to understand and appreciate this special holiday.

Over the course of seven days, African Americans, families and friends, come together to light the candles that symbolize their past and future—and their unity. They gather as a community to make music and to dance; to feast on harvest foods and the good things of the earth; and to exchange simple, often homemade, gifts. Readers are introduced to the symbols of the holiday, such as the mkeka (a special placemat), kinara (candleholder), and kikombe cha umoja (unity cup). Important concepts, like the seven principles, are explained. In addit