IMANI — FAITH: To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders.
In African spirituality, it begins with a belief in the Creator and in the positiveness of the creation and logically leads to a belief in the essential goodness and possibility of the human personality.
For in all African spiritual traditions from Egypt on, it is taught that we are in the image of the Creator and thus capable of ultimate righteousness and creativity through self-mastery and development in the context of positive support.
Faith in ourselves is key; faith in our capacity as humans to live righteously, self-correct, supportive, humane, and responsible for each other and maintain a just and good society.
We must, invent, innovate, reach inside ourselves and dare “set afoot a new man and woman.” “matunda ya kwanza,” which means “first fruits.”
Imani—“To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.”
