No Kawaida in Wikipedia?
Kawaida is the philosophical foundation for what many of us now celebrate as Kwanzaa. Maulana Karenga developed the philosophy of Kawaida as a way to develop an alternative set of cultural values that were themselves based on the best of black diasporal life through time. The seven principles of Kawaida (Ujima, Umoja, Ujamaa, Nia, Imani, Kujichagulia, and Kuumba) were supposed to be both pre- and post- Ten Commandments, according to Amiri Baraka (once practitioner–Baraka was given his name by Karenga).
So i was looking for a richer conception of Kawaida that I could use for my book, and I don’t have Karenga’s writings handy (they are at home in Baltimore and I’m in Detroit) so I went to Wikipedia. Couldn’t find it. Thought I might have spelled it differently. Nope. I stopped trying to add my own twists there after a fight with someone over Afrocentrism. If someone, anyone, has the time to come up with a nice entry for Kawaida, I probably won’t need it by then …but it’ll be appreciated.
Until that is, someone tries to rip it to shreds.
