Happy Kwanzaa

Kwanzaa lasts for seven days, with each day dedicated to one of the seven principles known as the Nguzo Saba. These principles are:

• 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 make our brothers’ and sisters’ problems our problems and solve them together.

• Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) – To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.

• Nia (Purpose) – To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.

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

• Imani (Faith) – To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness of our struggle.