The Nguzo Saba 365 website is a project of The Afrikan Restoration Project in support of our mission to make the Seven Principles a code of daily conduct in the Black community.
We believe that if Black people applied these principles everyday, we would become the best possible version of ourselves and fully able to create the world we want and deserve to live in.
We recognize and advance the Seven Principles and their meaning:
To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and world African community.
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves.
To build and maintain our community together and to make our brother's and sister's problems our problems and to solve them together.
To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
To do always as much as we can, in the way that we can, to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
To believe with all our hearts in our parents, our teachers, our leaders, our people, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
Yet, we maintain the principles have their greatest value when put "IN MOTION" through our best collective work. Our best work includes merging the Seven Principles with modern technology in the most meaningful way to increase people's engagement with Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba – especially children.
To accomplish our goals, we have created the Nguzo Saba 365 app and the Kwanzaa For Kids program as introduced here.
Sunday, December 28, 2025
5-6:30pm PST / 8pm-9:30 EST
Introducing the Black Futures Children's Literary Series:
STEM 'n 'Nem "Kwanzaa, STEM, and the Seven Principles"
— Reconnecting with the original inspiration of the First Occasion of Kwanzaa —
The app is designed to be a way for people committed to daily practice of the Nguzo Saba to experience it with each other. This will include, periodic sharing of information and other features that relate to how we apply the Nguzo Saba / Seven Principles everyday.
Kwanzaa For Kids is a joint project between The Afrikan Restoration Project and Imagiread Children's Literacy Academy. Our goal is to promote children's active engagement with Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba and to improve children's literacy outcomes, generally, through a series of interactive, instructional videos and online content designed for children.
Visit Kwanzaa For KidsThe Seven Principles of STEM emerged as a set of principled practices reflecting how a "morally responsible and responsive STEM professional" develops and applies STEM.
The related background and details are presented in detail in a new book written by TARP co-director, Shujaa Baker, titled - "Building on the Work of Our Elders and Ancestors: Merging STEM with Kawaida to Elevate Blackness (…and everything else…) - introduced below.
This book begins as an ethical treatise on how STEM (science, technology, engineering, and manufacturing) should be developed and applied based on lessons found in the social philosophy called Kawaida.
Kawaida is a communitarian African thought system created by Dr. Maulana Karenga that informed creation of the Pan African holiday, Kwanzaa, and the Nguzo Saba / Seven Principles value system.
This book began with a review of existing Kawaida scholarship for the author to extract and develop a Kawaida perspective on STEM. The principles, practices, criticisms, challenges, and goals outlined in this book were chosen to reflect a Kawaida perspective on how STEM should be developed and applied...
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