Maulana Ron Karenga created Kwanzaa in 1996 to celebrate the history, values, family, community and culture of African Americans. The ideas and concepts of Kwanzaa are expressed in the Swahili language, which is a very widely spoken language in Africa, according to the National Museum of African...
in both English and Swahili. For Manyasa-Zangrillo, reading was a beautiful escape. “It was a way of distracting myself from all the craziness and strictness that was going around,” she said.