The seven principles, or Nguzo Saba are a set of ideals. Each day of Kwanzaa emphasizes a different principle.
Unity (Umoja) - (oo-MO-jah) - To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
Self-determination (Kujichagulia) - (koo-gee-cha-goo-LEE-yah) - To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves.
Collective Work and Responsibility (Ujima) - (oo-GEE-mah) - To build and maintain our community together and make our brother's and sister's problems our problems and to solve them together.
Cooperative Economics (Ujamaa)- (oo-JAH-mah) - To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
Purpose (Nia) - (nee-YAH) - To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
Creativity (Kuumba)- (koo-OOM-bah) - 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.
Faith (Imani) - (ee-MAH-nee) - 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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