Kwanzaa builds on the five fundamental activities of Continental African “first fruit” celebrations:-
1) a time of ingathering of the people to reaffirm the bonds between them;
2) a time of special reverence for the creator and creation in thanks and respect for the blessings, bountifulness and beauty of creation;
3) a time for commemoration of the past in pursuit of its lessons and in honour of its models of human excellence, our ancestors;
4) a time of recommitment to our highest cultural ideals in our ongoing effort to always bring forth the best of African cultural thought and practice;
5) a time for celebration of the Good, the good of life and of existence itself, the good of family, community and culture, the good of the awesome and the ordinary, in a word the good of the divine, natural and social.