The Nguzo Saba are the Seven Principles of Kwanza:

• 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 or our struggle.