THE NGUZO SABA
UMOJA (oo-mo-jah)
Unity
To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
Unity
To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
KUJICHAGULIA (koo-gee-cha-goo-lee-yah)
Self-determination
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.
Self-determination
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.
UJIMA (oo-gee-mah)
Collective work & responsibility
To build and maintain our community together and make our brother’s and sister’s problems our problems and to solve them together.
Collective work & responsibility
To build and maintain our community together and make our brother’s and sister’s problems our problems and to solve them together.
UJAMAA (oo-jah-mah)
Cooperative Economics
To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.
Cooperative Economics
To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.
NIA (nee-yah)
Purpose
To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
Purpose
To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
KUUMBA (koo-oom-bah)
Creativity
To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
Creativity
To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
IMANI (ee-mah-nee)
Faith
To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
Faith
To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
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