The Seven Principles of Kwanzaa By MaiaThis Kwanzaa millions of Africans all over the world come again together to celebrate family, community and culture and to recommit them to creating and practicing good in the world, using the Nguzo Saba, the Seven Principles, as the fundamental framework and foundation to achieve this. Thus, as our ancestors and elders before us, we come again together to reinforce the bonds between us as persons and peoples, and to give thanks for the harvest of good we have gathered from the fertile fields of our lands, the fruitful fields of our lives, and the bruising and blood-stained battlefields of our struggles. We come together again also to commemorate the past, to raise and praise the sacred names and sustaining practices of the ancestors and to recommit ourselves to the dignity-affirming and life-enhancing views and values they have left to ground and guide us. Consciously following in the cultural footsteps of our ancestors and elders, we come together also to celebrate the good in and of the world, the ...
