When we were in Africa we would have American visitors who always asked about “Kwanzaa” celebrations. We had to explain to the school secretary what it was. She looked puzzled and said, “They don’t celebrate Christmas in America? Are they not Christians there?”
Several years ago, in the Washington Times I believe, there was an article concerning kwanzaa written by a black American who was married to a black woman born and raised in Africa.
One day their children came home with special school projects for kwanzaa. Having never heard of it he asked his children who told him it was a traditional African celebration.
He asked his African born wife who hadn’t a clue.
When the teacher couldn’t give him a real explanation for this African celebration he started contacting African embassies in DC.
The first one he contacted said they had never heard of it, “try Ghana it might be one of theirs.”
He called, visited or emailed every African embassy in DC and drew a complete blank.
The best answer he got was that it was probably something dreamed up by one of the black supremacist groups here in the US. It wasn’t African.