To Prosper Our Communities

On the fourth night of Kwanzaa, Nana read from the Great Book:

"To Prosper ourselves and our communities in our economic lives. In so prospering, we do not add unto the poverty and misery of others in the world. For we know the pain and suffering of these afflictions through the experiences of our ancestors as slaves for the economic gain of others."

The story unfolds from there as the Spirit of Ujamaa winds its way as acaravan across a vast landscape of a mountain and sets up a market place where Achebe has his choice of everything to make life tasty, sweet and satisfying, at any price.