AFAS 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Kwame Nkrumah, The Need
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Umoja - unity: to strive for and maintain unity and the family, community, nation, and race. Kujichagulia - self-determination: to define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves instead of being defined, named, created, for and spoken by others. Ujima - collective work ad responsibility: build and maintain our community together and make our sisters and brother s problems and to solve them together. Ujamaa - coopertaive economics: build and maintain stores, shops and other businesses and to profit form them together. Nia - purpose: make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness. Kuumba - creativity: always do as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we created it.