Kwanzaa 2018 BostonRed

 KWANZAA IS A FESTIVALOF HARVEST AND celebration   of the Good,   the   shared good, the shared goodof field and forest, of fruit tree and flower, the shared good of wind and waters, rainfall and riverflow, of life and all  living  things,  in  a  word,  the  shared  good of the world in all its wonderful abundance.

At the very heart and center of the celebration

of Kwanzaa is the ethical imperative and so-cial  obligation  of  the  cooperative  creation and sharing of an inclusive Good. This prin-

ciple and related practice are rooted in itsan-cient  origins the  African  harvest  and  the

communitarian  worldview  and  way  of  life that undergirded and informed it. The ancient roots of Kwanzaa in the shared African har-vest  and  the  celebration  of  it,  immediately bring to mind the sacred teachings given to us by  our  honored  ancestors  in  the

Odu  Ifa which  tells  and  teaches  us  we  are  to  con-stantly strive and struggle to bring good into

the  world,  share  it  and  not  let  any  good  be loss DR MAULANA KARENGA