African values

Here we have recollected the most important traditional African values. These principles are listed here, first in Swahili and then in English:

Umoja (Unity) - To strive for and 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 sister's 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.

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 always do as much as we can, in the way that we can, in order to leave out 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.

And I add another - Harambee, the Swahili word meaning unite to work together.