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'''Kwanzaa''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|w|ɑː|n|.|z|ə}}) is an annual celebration of [[African-American culture]] from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a communal feast called ''Karamu'', usually on the sixth day.<ref name="Why Kwanzaa">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-MY8I_kwJY&list=PLJMZrovNFcP-idSz-hriEx3xaSXWNtpBw&index=1&ab_channel=AHSSociety| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/c-MY8I_kwJY| archive-date=December 11, 2021 | url-status=live|work=[[Maulana Karenga]]|title=Why Kwanzaa Video|access-date=December 7, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> It was created by activist [[Maulana Karenga]], based on African harvest festival traditions from various parts of [[West Africa|West]],
{{cite web |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/kwanzaa-history-traditions-information |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417083943/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/kwanzaa-history-traditions-information |url-status=live |archive-date=April 17, 2021 |title=Kwanzaa celebrates African-American heritage. Here's how it came to be—and what it means today. |author=Amy McKeever |date=December 22, 2020 |publisher=National Geographic |access-date=November 16, 2023}}</ref>
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==Adherence==
The popularity of celebration of Kwanzaa has declined with the waning of the popularity of the [[black separatist]] movement.<ref>{{cite book | last = Stanley | first = Sharon | title = An impossible dream? : racial integration in the United States | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = New York | year = 2017 | isbn = 978-0190639976 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Hall | first = Raymond | title = Black separatism and social reality : rhetoric and reason | publisher = Pergamon Press | location = New York | year = 1977 | isbn = 9780080195100 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Dattel |first=Gene |title=Separatism vs. Integration: Can Separate Ever Be Equal? |journal=Academic Questions |volume=32 |issue=4 |year=2019 |pages=476–486|doi=10.1007/s12129-019-09822-4 |doi-broken-date=January
[[File:Kwanza-RonKarenga.jpg|thumb|A 2003 Kwanzaa celebration with Kwanzaa founder [[Maulana Karenga]] at the center, and others]]
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==Practice outside the United States==
Other countries that celebrate Kwanzaa include
In Canada it is celebrated in provinces including [[Saskatchewan]]<ref name="CBC 2019">{{cite web | title=Sask. African Canadian Heritage Museum celebrates Kwanzaa in Regina – CBC News | website=CBC | date=December 28, 2019 | url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/african-canadian-heritage-museum-kwanzaa-1.5409656 | access-date=December 1, 2022}}</ref> and [[Ontario]]. Kwanzaa week was first declared in [[Toronto]] in 2018.<ref name="WBFO 2018">{{cite web | title=Proclamations declaring Kwanzaa week in Toronto and Brampton a first for Canada | website=WBFO | date=December 27, 2018 | url=https://www.wbfo.org/local/2018-12-27/proclamations-declaring-kwanzaa-week-in-toronto-and-brampton-a-first-for-canada | access-date=December 1, 2022}}</ref> There are local chapters that emerged in the 2010s in provinces like [[British Columbia]], where there are much smaller groups of the diaspora, founding members may be immigrants from countries like [[Uganda]].<ref name="Service 2021">{{cite web |last= |first= |date=December 14, 2021 |title=Kwanzaa, the 7 most important days of the year, approaching for many African-Canadians |url=https://www.saanichnews.com/news/kwanzaa-the-7-most-important-days-of-the-year-approaching-for-many-african-canadians/ |access-date=December 30, 2023 |website=Saanich News}}</ref>
==See also==
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