Get Ready for Kwanzaa 2007 – Worrill’s World

The concept of Kwanzaa was established for Africans in America and was derived from the African custom of celebrating the harvest season.

Kwanzaa is officially celebrated December 26th through January 1st and each day, a value of the Nguzo Saba (seven principles of blackness) is celebrated. The Nguzo Saba (Seven Principles) are:

Umoja ~ Unity – To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.

Kujichagulia ~ Self Determination – To define ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves, instead of being defined, named, created for, and spoken for by others.

Ujima ~ Collective Work and Responsibility – To build and maintain together our community, to make our sisters’ and brothers’ 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 as 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 when we inherited it.

Imani ~ Faith – To believe with all our hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.