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Thread #53533   Message #828784
Posted By: Haruo
18-Nov-02 - 12:56 AM
Thread Name: New Christmas/Solstice/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa songs
Subject: RE: New Xmas/Solstice/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa Songs
So far nobody seems to have put any Kwanzaa stuff in this thread (and it is Kwanzaa, not Kwansaa, maybe a Joe Clone could tweak the thread title so it'll come up in a correctly spelled Forum Search?) but I just got an ad in my Hotmail Junkmail for a Kwanzaa CD, and there are mp3 samples you can listen to at their website (http://www.essenceofkwanzaa.com).

BTW, Swahili speakers routinely have problems with the word "Kwanzaa"; if it were a Swahili word it would be pronounced as three syllables, with the stress on the "za": kwan-ZA-a. But it's an English word. I proposed that the Swahili for "Kwanzaa" should be "Kwaanza", and this has met with general approval among the limited Souaheliphone circles that have seen my proposal. But there are tens of millions of Swahili speakers out there who have not had the benefit of my counsel (and probably most of them have never heard of Kwanzaa anyway).

Haruo (or, in Swahili, Lilendi)