08/28/2026
I challenge everyone who reads this post to challenge themselves for the rest of the year into the next, by mentally, physically and spiritually planting a seed, watering, growing and harvesting. Challenge yourself to live by these principles from the Swahili tribe.
Umoja (Unity)Meaning: To strive for and maintain unity.Practice: Nurturing harmony and togetherness within the family, neighborhood, nation, and race.
2. Kujichagulia (Self-Determination)Meaning: To define, name, create, and speak for ourselves.Practice: Resisting outside voices that attempt to define your community, and instead building your own unique identity and culture.
3. Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility)Meaning: To build and maintain community together.Practice: Viewing your neighbor’s problems as your own problems and committing to solving them through mutual support.
4. Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics)Meaning: To build and profit from shared businesses.Practice: Supporting Black-owned and local businesses, shops, and stores to ensure that wealth and financial benefits stay within the community.
5. Nia (Purpose)Meaning: To look at collective community growth as a primary vocation.Practice: Setting personal goals that align with restoring the community and its people to their traditional greatness.
6. Kuumba (Creativity)Meaning: To use your unique talents to leave a space better than you found it.Practice: Generating beauty through art, music, literature, and innovative problem-solving to improve the community for future generations.
7. Imani (Faith)Meaning: To believe with all your heart in your people.Practice: Placing deep trust in parents, teachers, leaders, and the overall righteousness and eventual victory of the community's struggles.
