Nguzo Saba - The Seven Principles

Unity

To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.

Self-Determination

To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.

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.

Co-operative Economics

To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.

Purpose

To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.

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.

Faith

To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.