The name of this American holiday is from the Swahili for "first fruits"
Although Kwanzaa is primarily an African American holiday, it has also come to 
be... [DOC] [TLE] Year's End by Ted Kooser - The Writer's Almanac - American Public ... [PAR] Dec 26, 2012 ... on each of us, the heavy drawers ... Today is the first day of Kwanzaa, an African-
American and Pan-African cultural holiday first celebrated in 1966.