Example sentences for: karenga

How can you use “karenga” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Last year, apparently rehabilitated in the eyes of many African-American leaders, Karenga served on the national executive committee for the Million Man March.

  • Karenga, Kwanzaa's creator, has also written two books on the celebration, Kwanzaa: Origin, Concepts, Practice and The African American Celebration of Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community & Culture . And Anna Day Wilde describes how the holiday gained popularity in "Mainstreaming Kwanzaa," in Public Interest , No.

  • Beginning in the late 1970s, however, Kwanzaa began to attract coverage in the mainstream press . The attention grew as Karenga modified his rhetoric to appeal to a broader audience, and as interest in multiculturalism burgeoned in the late 1980s.

  • Karenga took the holiday's name from the Swahili phrase matunda yakwanza , meaning "first fruit."

  • In Karenga's own words, "It's widespread but not mainstream."


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