Habari Gani - Ujima (Collective Work & Responsibility) To build and maintain our community together and to make our Brothers and sisters problems, our problems and to solve them together. The principle of Ujima means a commitment to active and informed togetherness on matters of common interest. It is a recognition and respect of the fact that without collective work and struggle, progress is impossible and liberation unthinkable. Practicing Ujima, means that we accept the fact that we are collectively responsible for our failures and setbacks as well as our victories and achievements. This holds true not only for the family, but organizations large and small. Such a commitment implies and encourages a vigorous capacity for self-criticism and self-correction which is indispensable to our strength, defense and development as a people. The principle of collective work and responsibility also points to the fact that African freedom is indivisible. It shelters the assumption that as long as any African anywhere is oppressed, exploited enslaved or wounded in any way in her or his humanity, all African people are. It thus, rejects the possibility or desirability of individual freedom; instead it poses the need for struggle to create a context in which all can be free. Practicing Ujima causes us to remember we are each cultural representatives of our people and have no right to misrepresent them, or willfully do less than is demanded of us by our history and must accept and live the principle of shared or collective work and responsibility in all things good, right and beneficial to the community.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 18:11:11 +0000
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