Dul-Sayin’ - The History of Kwanzaa | The Daily Show

What is Kwanzaa, and what do the seven candles represent? Dulcé Sloan explains the history of the holiday. #DailyShow #DulcéSloan #Kwanzaa

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[ambilikisyekatinila]

As a person who speaks Swahili, this was nice to watch

[Inamichan]

I call the last day of Kwanzaa “me day” since my name is Imani 😂

[Ukie_Hags_World]

No one can deliver a history lesson like Dulce.

[EMNstar]

As a child in Stone Mountain, GA in the early 2000s, we celebrated all three Christmas, Hannukkah, and Kwanzaa in school

[rizikimichelle]

As a Kiswahi speaker you tried with those pronunciations. Its cute and funny 🤣🤣🤣

[gimwangi]

As an East African watching this, Dulcè nailed the swahili 💯🙌🇰🇪🇰🇪

[MonDieuMaCauseMonEpee]

It's more of a Pan-Africanist black holiday, more cultural than anything. My family has celebrated Kwanzaa since I was a child but we always forget how to do it whenever it comes around so we have to look up the definitions of each day's value it gets so awkward trying to pronounce the Swahili words.

[TASHITE]

"African cosplay", thanks for for saying the thought I never knew I had about Kwanza.

[annettedennis]

I’m guilty as I’m sure a lot of people are, for not doing everything we could to make sure we represent our heritage better than we do. I wish I could see some of our celebrities come together, like they do for all the award shows. Some communities do their best, but we could do better. I’m 89 years old, prayerfully this could happen in the future 🙏🏾. Thank you for giving us a chance to remember the importance of our history 👍🏾

[vgtrp]

To be fair, I think both Power Rangers and Sesame Street did try to respect Kwanzaa.

[dragonflyq]

"oh, she's a white lady, she doesn't know" lol love dulce

[tituskilonzo]

From Kenya here! Happy to see Swahili in America.

[TahtahmesDiary]

I was about to make a Kwanzaa video too, about making the Kinara and painting candles…my twins are 5 so it’s about time I started. I didn’t realize so few still celebrate it! I was under the impression more did, but I’ll still be doing it with my kids ❤️

[sambathehusqueen]

Im mexican, and kwanzaa is my fave winter holidays, it has the best values.

[chefcc]

Dulce is awesome at explaining this kind of stuff to people like me, white person ignorant of other's heritage. Makes learning enjoyable

[arizonaarkie]

I really appreciate this video! both the history and practices of kwanzaa are fascinating and something i needed to know more about, but i especially liked the discussion of how and why the adoption of it and celebration of it have changed over time. and as always dulcé is hilarious and her delivery is incredible!

[tominowino]

As a Tanzanian and a Swahili speaker, this episode has made me feel so relevant!

[ManFan]

In the mid-90s, I worked for a supervisor who had been involved with the California Black Panther Party back in day. Every time Kwanzaa came up, he laughed, saying Karenga worked for the FBI and it was a made-up holiday. Karenga might be bad news, but I think his made-up holiday has taken a life of its own and transcended him.

[brookez]

I’ve always wanted to learn about what Kwanzaa was, but just never got around to it. Glad this video finally taught me

[CocoBanana]

Finally as a Kenyan growing up in Germany I know what kwanza is