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Post by MaryAnn Layton on Dec 29, 2010 12:38:23 GMT -5
I was just speaking to Rev. Catherine Gross, who shared with me the 7 concepts practiced during the 7 days of Kwanza, which is an African holiday celebrated from Dec. 26th to 31st.
* Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to 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 brothers' and sisters' 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.
We were just saying that these principles should not only be followed by Africans, but are appropriate for every race, color and creed. So no matter what religion, even for atheists, these are great words to live by!
Namaste,
Mal
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