How To Use Kwanza In A Sentence
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For the duration of the holiday, from Dec. 26 until Jan. 1, stores will put on Kwanzaa displays using African themes and featuring a kinara.
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This Kwanzaa holiday, I'll head out to the neighborhood store to purchase my red, black and green candles for the kinara, because I know that the strength of the U.S. economy is found in its multicultural small community owned businesses that reflect our nation's diversity.
Irene Monroe: Should Kwanzaa Stay in Black Neighborhoods?
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Kwanzaa pays tribute to seven core precepts of African culture, starting with umoja, which means community, collectiveness, a real keeper of a concept.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: First Fruits of the Harvest
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On every street corner, gangs of female money changers wave fat wads of kwanzas in the air, the fluctuating exchange rate testimony to the vagaries of the war economy.
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The kinara holds seven candles, and each day of Kwanzaa a candle is lit.
Kwanzaa In Chicago: Events And Celebrations Of African-American Culture
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The US dollar is the most commonly used foreign currency and trades openly side by side with the kwanza (local currency), at the rate of 1 to 80 in March 2004.
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Jersey City argued in federal district (that is, trial) court that the display complied with the Constitution (as interpreted in a number of Supreme Court decisions) because the sleigh and the Santa Claus and the Frosty the Snowman and the Kwanzaa ribbons that it added to the creche and the menorah "demystified" thtose two religious symbols -- that is, drained them of their religious meaning.
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There are gifts to buy for Christmas, Hanukkah and the African - American celebration of Kwanzaa.
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Happy solstice, festivus, squidmas, hannukah, kwanza, christmas and freeze your assoff in saskatchewan day ;
Grace In Small Things: Part 28 of 365
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I myself know relatively little about Kwanzaa, so the section in the back in which each elf is named and given a definition, (example: “Ujima is responsible for solving problems”) passed way way over my head.
Review of the Day: Santa's Kwanzaa
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As at Thanksgiving, the Kwanzaa table is bountiful, but the accent isn't turkey, it's -- as the name suggests, matunda ya kwanza, the first fruits of the harvest, from the traditional foods of Africa to the fusion dishes of the African diaspora, in the Caribbean, Latin America and here.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: First Fruits of the Harvest
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Mayor Piper joins a long list of conservative politicians who have no objection to stamps commemorating Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, even teh Chinese New year - but a stamp devoted to the muslim holiday of Eid is singled out as a threat, requiring response from “patriotic” Americans?
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The government ration card system allows an urban family to buy a case of imported beer for about 400 Kwanza.
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The new kwanza, the national currency, is subject to high inflation rates.
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Kwanzaa also has seven basic symbols which represent values and concepts reflective of African culture.
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He also said there must be a single rate of exchange for the national currency, the kwanza, which is officially worth 55,000 to the dollar but on the black market fetches 240,000.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The private weekly papers are difficult to come by outside of Luanda; in any case, a third of Angolan adults cannot read, and few can afford papers that sell on the street for 120 kwanzas.
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In contrast, the Angolan kwanza and the Nigerian naira have depreciated against the US dollar over the period which may have protected their competitiveness.
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The Angolan cabinet was on Tuesday due to begin talks on a proposed law to introduce a "readjusted" kwanza, by knocking off some of the zeros, a source at the presidency said.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Of course, one could say the same about Kwanzan cherries and lilacs, whose flowerless branches lack the slightest inspiration.
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You may be separated from loved ones, or Jewish or Buddhist or a Kwanzaa celebrator.
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Kwanzaa a seven - day festival celebrating the culture and history of African Ameiricans.
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Next week, students will make a candleholder called a kinara when studying Kwanzaa on Monday.
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The name was drawn from the Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, meaning the "first fruits of the harvest.
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Urban Word of the Day
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Kwanzaa is a seven - day festival celebrating the culture and history of African Americans.
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Sasa sijui nisemaje ..... kwanza nataka wote wajue kwamba sio muhimu kwa wazungu wa kawaida kuelewa maneno haya.
Archive 2008-06-01
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A little girl and her family prepare for Kwanzaa: They pull out the kinara and place the seven candles, they add yams, apples and nuts to the kikombe, and as the first day begins they ask, "Habari gani?"
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There are gifts to buy for Christmas, Hanukkah and the African - American celebration of Kwanzaa.
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Performances will include traditional harvest dance processions around the campus, along with explanations about the background of Kwanzaa.
