Habari gani ( what's the word)
Kujichagulia (koo-jee-cha-goo-LEE-ah)
Self Determination
"To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves."
The second Principle of the Nguzo Saba is self-determination. This too expresses itself as both commitment and practice. It demands that we as an African people define, defend and develop ourselves instead of allowing or encouraging others to do this. It requires that we recover lost memory and once again shape our world in our own image and interest. And it is a call to recover and speak our own special truth to the world and raise images above the earth that reflect our capacity for human greatness and progress.
The first act of a free people is to shape its world in its own image and interest. And it is a statement about their conception of self and their commitment to self-determination. [Frantz] Fanon has said each person must ask him or herself three basic questions:
1. Who am I?
2. Am I really who I say I am?
3. Am I all that I ought to be?
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