What is day 4 of Kwanzaa called?

Day 4 of Kwanzaa is called Ujamaa, which means cooperative economics. It is celebrated on December 29th by lighting the second red candle on the kinara, next to the black one.

Ujamaa is the principle of building and maintaining our businesses and sharing the profits with our community. It honors the legacy of Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and other examples of Black economic empowerment.

It also encourages us to support Black-owned businesses and banks and to practice collective saving and investing. Ujamaa is a way of expressing our unity, creativity, and faith in ourselves and each other. Habari gani? Ujamaa!

Kwanzaa was created in 1966 by Maulana Karenga, a professor of Africana studies and an activist, based on African harvest festival traditions. The name Kwanzaa comes from the Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, meaning “first fruits”.

Kwanzaa is celebrated by millions of people in the United States and around the world, especially in the Caribbean and other countries with large African diaspora populations.