DAY 1 UMOJA (oo-Moh-ja) Unity To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race. DAY 2 KUJICHAGULIA (koo-jee-cha-goo-LEE-ah) Self determination To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves. ( thinking and deciding for oneself) DAY 3 UMIJA (oo-jee-mah) Collective work & responsibility To build and maintain our community together and to make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems and to solve them together. DAY 4 UJAMAA (oo-jah-MAH) Cooperative economics To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit together from them. DAY 5 NIA (NEE-ah) Purpose Reason for living, to be the great people that we are. Restore our people to their traditional greatness. DAY 6 KUUMBA (koo-OOM-bah) Creativity Make our communities beautiful, use hands and minds to create new things DAY 7 IMANI (ee-MAH-nee) Faith To believe with all our hearts in our parents, our teachers, our leaders, our people and the righteousness and victory of our struggle. |