KWANZAA PRINCIPLES

for this holiday season and all year long

UMOJA:

UNITY:

To strive for and maintain unity
in family, community, nation and race.

KUJICHAGULIA:

SELF DETERMINATION:

To define and name ourselves. To create and speak for ourselves, instead of having others defining, or determining our paths or SELVES.

UJIMA:  

COLLECTIVE WORK & RESPONSBILITY:  

To come together to build and maintain our communities. To carry our brothers' & sisters' problems and together solve them.

UJAMAA: 

CO-OPERATIVE ECONOMICS:

To come together to build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.

NIA: 

PURPOSE:

To make as our collective vocation the building and developing of our communities in in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.

KUUMA: 

CREATIVITY:

To always do as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our communities more beautiful and beneficial than when we inherited them.

IMANI: 

FAITH:

To believe with all our hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.

AFFIRMATION:
I will sweep away all fear of the unknown, past regrets and concerns for the future from my mind and meet each day with active faith.