Umoja! - Kwanzaa Two-Tone Coffee Mug

"Umoja" (pronounced "ooh-MOE-jah") means "Unity" One of the Seven Principles of Kwanzaa. Art by Nazaire ~~~ NGUZO SABA (The Seven Principles) ~~~ December 26 ~~~ Umoja (Unity) To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race. December 27 ~~~ Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves. December 28 ~~~ Ujima (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. December 29 ~~~ Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together. December 30 ~~~ Nia (Purpose) To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness. December 31 ~~~ 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. January 1 ~~~ 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.