Kwanzaa celebrations underway at Frank Johnson Recreation Center
"True creativity, is making the world better, making people's lives better, and making yourself better,” said Fadil Muhammad, Co-Presenter of Macon’s Annual Kwanzaa Festival.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – It’s the sixth day of Kwanzaa and the sixth principle Kuumba, standing for creativity, was celebrated today at the Frank Johnson Recreation Center in Macon.
The community celebrated by learning about African art from Fadil Muhammad one of the Co-Presenters of Macon’s Annual Kwanzaa Festival, while participating in a community drum circle led by his son Karim Muhammad, followed by a Karamu feast and other activities.
This is part of the 33rd Annual Matunda Ya Kwanzaa, Festival of First Fruits, presented by the Kwanzaa Cultural Access Center and Torchlight Academy celebrating the seven days of Kwanzaa.
“That’s true creativity and of course that includes the art and includes the beautiful colors and the music and the poetry or the literature or whatever else artistically you can think of, but what we really are speaking of, true creativity, is making the world better, making people’s lives better, and making yourself better,” said Fadil Muhammad, Co-Presenter of Macon’s Annual Kwanzaa Festival.
“Whenever you have people gathering, congregation, it’s an amplification or a magnification of the power of unity and potentially the unity that we have as a people it’s an incomparable power and incomparable excellence that we can achieve,” said Muhammad. “So Kwanzaa, that’s what it really represents. Us coming together it’s all about unity and in particular, unity of black people who have been separated in so many ways. For so many years, millenniums, really, we’ve been suffering from that and so it’s a healing, you know, that’s part of it too. It helps us to love and appreciate each other coming together.”
Tomorrow, New Year’s Day, will be the final day of Kwanzaa. The seventh principle, Imani, standing for faith, will be celebrated with community meditation, prayer, and affirmation at Homeland Village Cultural Center starting at 1:00 p.m.
