# kwanzaa? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [April 30, 1999, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kwanzaa/39 "1999-04-30T04:49:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 1999, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kwanzaa/39/1 "1999-04-30T04:49:00Z")
Reading another archived column (yeah i have too much time on my hands). I found a concern with your treatment of the timing of kwanzaa. You poked doubt as to the timing having anything to do with the harvest as its originators claimed, but more with a opposition to x-mas. While there may be something to this x-mas humbug, I would take issue with you saying the harvest is a bit late for it to be a real explanation. Last time i checked a significant portion of Africa is in the southern hemisphere where the growing seasons are reversed. and even while i lack in any farming experience and have never been to the dark continent I imagine this timing could be concurrent with the first harvest. Not to mention, i wonder how the growing seasons work in tropical regions where seasonal changes are much less traumatic for plant life. * * * The facts expressed here belong to everybody, the opinions to me. The distinction is yours to draw… Omniscient; BAG ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 1999, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kwanzaa/39/2 "1999-04-30T18:10:00Z")
An October harvest that has been reversed on the calendar becomes an April harvest, not a December harvest. You may have a better chance of pushing for a December harvest in the Tropics, but it would be nice if _you_ provided the evidence. * * * Tom