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Philosophy
NGUZO
SABA
(The Seven Principles)
Umoja
(Unity)
To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation
and race.
Kujichagulia (Self-Determination)
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and
speak for ourselves.
Ujima (Collective Work and 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 (Cooperative Economics)
To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses
and to profit from them together.
Nia (Purpose)
To make our collective vocation the building and developing of
our community in order to restore our people to their traditional
greatness.
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.
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
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