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Kwanzaa has been spreading as a tradition since the mid-1970s, when it was conceived by Maulana Karen ga, a professor at University of California at Long Beach. It is still mostly celebrated "by the intelligentsia [since] that is how information disseminates," said BSA Treasurer Joshua D. Bloodworth '97. The numbers observing are still growing very rapidly, Bloodworth added...
...study the whole world-African community in its relationship to others," says Maulana Karenga, who chairs the Department of Black Studies at California State University, North Ridge and is a prominant proponent of Afrocentrism...
Kwanzaa is patterned after various African agricultural festivals, and the name derives from the Swahili word for first fruit of the harvest. It was created by Maulana Karenga, a black-studies professor at California State University, Long Beach. The purpose of the holiday, he says, is to help black people "rescue and reconstruct our history and culture and shape them in our own image...
Pakistan's rejection virtually guarantees that the nuclear issue will continue to fester, thereby threatening the entire range of U.S. interests in the region. One effect of Washington's pressure so far has been to unite a normally vociferous opposition behind Zia's authoritarian government. Declared Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani, president of the right-wing Jamiatul-Ulema-e- Pakistan Party: "Pakistan must not accept the U.S. pressure. It should continue its nuclear program even if that means cutting off all American...
...received by a guerrilla listening post on the Pakistani border. "We have been without sleep for 48 hours," the report read. "It is the biggest battle of the war. We have lost many men, but we will not lose the war." The terse communication was signed by Maulana Jalaluddin Haqani, commander of an Afghan partisan group known as Hesbi Islam, or Islamic Party...