Kwanzaa is a week-long celebration held in the United States and also celebrated in the Western African Diaspora in other nations of the Americas. The celebration honors African heritage in African-American culture, and is observed from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a feast and gift-giving.Kwanzaa has seven core principles (Nguzo Saba). Maulana Karenga created Kwanzaa in 1965 as the first specifically African-American holiday. Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one of the following principles, as follows:
 
 Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
 Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves.
 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.
 Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
 Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building 
 and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their 
 traditional greatness.
 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.
 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.
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