MAULANA KARENGA

MAULANA KARENGA, Dr. Maulana Karenga is professor and chair of Africana Studies at California State University, Long Beach. Dr. Karenga is widely known as the creator of Kwanzaa. An activist-scholar of national and international recognition, Dr. Karenga has had a far-reaching effect on Black intellectual and political culture since the 1960s. Moreover, he is the executive director of the Kawaida Institute of Pan-African Studies, Los Angeles, and national chairman of The Organization Us, a cultural and social change organization, so named to stress the communitarian focus of the organization.

Website: www.maulanakarenga.org