Editing Kwanzaa (section)

==Nguzo Saba (The Seven Principles)==
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Kwanzaa celebrates what its founder called the seven principles of Kwanzaa, or '''''Nguzo Saba''''' (originally '''''Nguzu Saba'''''&nbsp;– the seven principles of African Heritage). They were developed in 1965, a year before Kwanzaa itself. These seven principles are all [[Swahili language|Swahili]] words, and together comprise the ''Kawaida'' or "common" philosophy, a synthesis of nationalist, pan-Africanist, and socialist values. 

Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one of the principles, as follows:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/NguzoSaba.shtml|title=Nguzo Saba|last=Karenga|first=Maulana|date=2008|website=The Official Kwanzaa Web Site|access-date=December 30, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191231203612/http://officialkwanzaawebsite.org/NguzoSaba.shtml|archive-date=December 31, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>

# '''''Umoja''''' (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
# '''''Kujichagulia''''' ([[Self-determination]]): To define and name ourselves, as well as to create 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 hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.