Kwanzaa and the Seven Principles: Day Six: Kuumba: Creativity

Kuumba, that we leave this earth better than we found it. Once again, this principle is so relevant for today. There are millions of people living on earth at this time. We are killing ourselves daily by our eating habits. We do not get enough rest. We drive big cars and live further away from every day necessities. How are we going to leave the earth better than we found it when we are using and wasting our natural resources? We must work together. Our very existence depends on it.

The principle of Kuumba (Creativity) teaches us the moral obligation “to do al-ways as much as we can in the way we can in order to leave our community more beau-tiful and beneficial than we inherited it.” Thus, we must practice serudj ta, constantly repair and remake the world, a Maatian con-cept with ethical and aesthetic, as well as natural and social implications, and which expansively means: to repair the damaged, raise up the ruined, replenish the depleted, rejoin the severed; strengthen the weakened; set right the wrong; and make flourish the fragile and undeveloped.

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