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If you'd like to know more about Kwanzaa, you can read The Complete Kwanzaa: Celebrating our Cultural Harvest , by Dorothy Winbush Riley; A Kwanzaa Keepsake: Celebrating the Holiday With New Traditions and Feasts , by Jessica B. Harris; or Merry Christmas, Baby: A Christmas and Kwanzaa Treasury , edited by Felix H. Liddell and Paula L. Woods.
It celebrates creativity, and is "an opportunity for a confetti storm of cultural expression: dance and music, readings, remembrances," according to Eric Copage, author of Kwanzaa: An African-American Celebration of Culture and Cooking . The food can be highly symbolic.
The central Kwanzaa ritual is candle lighting . First, the mkeka (straw mat) is placed on the table, along with the kinara (candleholder) and the mishumaa saba (seven candles).
Despite Karenga's original intention, Kwanzaa takes on a more commercial flavor every year.
Some Kwanzaa rituals, most notably the focus on candles, seem to have been borrowed from Hanukkah.