The Nguzo Saba
(Seven Principles)
Umoja-Unity
[oo MOH jah]
To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
Kujichagulia-Self Determination
[KOO jee cha goo LEE ah]
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves instead of being defined, named created and spoken for by others.
Ujima-Collective Work and Responsibility
[oo JEE mah]
To build and maintain our community together. To make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems to solve together.
Ujamma-Cooperative Economics
[oo JAH mah]
To build and maintain our own businesses and profit together from them.
Nia-Purpose
[NEE ya]
To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community and to restore our people to our traditional greatness.
Kuumba-Creativity
[koo OOM bah]
To always do as much as we can in any way that we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than when we inherited it.
Imani-FAITH
[ee MAH nee]
To believe with all our hearts in our GOD our people our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
(Seven Principles)
[oo MOH jah]
To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
[KOO jee cha goo LEE ah]
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves instead of being defined, named created and spoken for by others.
[oo JEE mah]
To build and maintain our community together. To make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems to solve together.
[oo JAH mah]
To build and maintain our own businesses and profit together from them.
[NEE ya]
To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community and to restore our people to our traditional greatness.
[koo OOM bah]
To always do as much as we can in any way that we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than when we inherited it.
[ee MAH nee]
To believe with all our hearts in our GOD our people our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.