Example sentences for: karenga

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

  • Despite Karenga's original intention, Kwanzaa takes on a more commercial flavor every year.

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

  • 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, 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.

  • Although there are no directly analogous African holidays, Karenga drew his inspiration from various African harvest festivals.


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