The 7 Days of Kwanzaa

Happy Kwanzaa! For the next 7 days we will celebrate African American heritage and this year’s theme of “Kwanzaa and the
Seven Principles: Sharing and Sustaining the World” Each candle represents a lesson we should participate in to prepare for the year coming up and reflect on the year that has pasted. From December 26-January 1 we will reflect on the meanings of the words and the self determination to be the best we can be in 2012. 

• December 26 Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
• December 27 Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves stand up
• December 28 Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers’ and sisters’ problems our problems, and to solve them together.
• December 29 Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
• December 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.
• December 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.
• January 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.

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