Kwanzaa
Celebration 2006 Info
The
Nguzo Saba
(Seven
Principles)
Umoja
-
Unity
[oo
MOH jah]
To
strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
Kujichagulia
-
Self
Determination
[KOO
jee cha goo LEE ah]
To
define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves
instead of being defined, named created and spoken for by others.
Ujima
-
Collective
Work and Responsibility
[oo
JEE mah]
To
build and maintain our community together. To make our brothers' and sisters'
problems our problems to solve together.
Ujamma
-
Cooperative Economics
[oo
JAH mah]
To
build and maintain our own businesses and profit together from them.
Nia
-
Purpose
[NEE
ya]
To
make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community and
to restore our people to our traditional greatness.
Kuumba
-
Creativity
[koo OOM bah]
To
always do as much as we can in any way that we can, in order to leave our community
more beautiful and beneficial than when we inherited it.
Imani
-
FAITH
[ee
MAH nee]
To
believe with all our hearts in our GOD our people our parents, our teachers, our
leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
