12/26/2025
Over the next week millions will gather with their families to light the seven candles of the Mishumaa Saba and commit themselves to the Seven Principles. (image from in 2024)
7 Kwanza Principles
• 12/26 Umoja (Unity)
To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
•12/27 Kujichagulia (Self-determination)
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.
• 12/28 Ujima (Cooperative economics)
To build and maintain our community together and make our brother’s and sister’s problems our problems and to solve them together.
•12/29 Ujamaa (Collective work & responsibility)
To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.
• 12/30 Nia (Purpose)
To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
• 12/31 Kuumba (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.
• 1/1 Imani (Faith)
To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
