Nguzo Saba

The seven principles of  Kwanzaa.  We use them in our every day lives and express to our audiences how they can utilize the principles to enhance their own lives.

Umoja - (Unity) To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.

Kujichagulia - (Self-Determination) To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.

Ujima - (Collective Work and Responsibility) To build and maintain our community together and to make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems and to solve them together.

Ujamaa - (Cooperative Economics) To make as our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.

Nia - (Purpose) To make as our collective vocation the building and developing of our people to their traditional greatness.

Kuumba - (Creativity) To do always as much as we can, in the way that we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than when we inherited it.

Imani - (Faith) To believe with all our hearts in our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.