Kwanzaa Gifts and Feast Celebration

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Masequa Myers and I'll be talking about a few of the most essential and fun components in celebrating Kwanzaa. First of all, because they're our future, Kwanzaa is all about the children as well in our family. And on the last day, is when we bring out the zawadis, the gifts. And those gifts are given to the children on the seventh day. And remember, the children can give each other gifts, can give the adults gifts, the adults can give them gifts. But what we really want to stress is creativity and not just buying something, but something that you create yourself, that you put your heart and your love into it. So we're not worried about how much it cost or where it came from as long as it comes from the heart. And also on the last day, is our feast day, our karamu, which means we all come together either in our family or in the community or at public Kwanzaas and we bring food and we eat and we sing and we say prayer and we mediate and we pour libation. But we do this all over the wonderful activity of food. So the karamu is the big feast. Feast is the English translation of the word karamu. So I hope you incorporate these two essentials in your celebrating of Kwanzaa. And, if you want more information about how Dr. Maulana Karenga created Kwanzaa, feel free to pick up his Kwanzaa book. It is so wonderful. It goes into details about everything that we've covered in this video. And visit the official Kwanzaa website."