Sankofa Girls Rock / Kwanzaa 2013

Maya recites principles of Kwanzaa:

KWANZAA

the celebration of family,community, and culture

NGUZO SABA

The Seven Principles

UMOJA - UNITY

to strive 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 restore our poeople 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 hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and righteousness and victory of our struggle