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Share with Us - The Work of Ujima
Community Call to Action: The Work of Ujima
Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility):
To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers’ and sisters’ problems our problems and to solve them together.
Dear Community,
We’ve planted the seed with Umoja. We’ve dug into the roots with Kujichagulia. Now we arrive at Ujima, the pulse of our collective heart, the rhythm of working side by side, dreaming side by side, healing side by side.
Ujima reminds us that none of us are meant to do this alone. It’s about shared effort. Shared care. Shared responsibility. It is how we build sustainable liberation, by holding each other up and holding each other accountable.
The Ask: Speak to Collective Care
🎤 Record a short voice message (up to 90 seconds) in response to one of these prompts via this SpeakPipe link:
What does collective work and responsibility look like in your community?
Share a story of when a group effort changed something for the better.
What role does community care play in your healing or growth?
How are you working with community to bring us closer towards collective liberation?
This is your chance to uplift practices, stories, and visions of we, not just me in a society that isolates and individualizes.
Your voice may be woven into future multimedia storytelling for the community.
Why Ujima Matters
Ujima is the blueprint for mutual aid, for collective dreaming, for revolution that doesn’t burn us out but builds us up. It asks:
Who are we building with and for?
What do we owe each other in love, care, and responsibility?
How do we turn empathy into action?
Ujima means we refuse to turn away. We link arms and say, “We’ve got us.”
🐝 We Need Your Voice
In your own words, with your own rhythm, add your truth to this communal altar of sound and story.
Your voice is a tool. A balm. A builder.
Submit here
✨ Deadline: Submissions ongoing until the 26th of June 2025.
🎶 Need Inspiration?
Our Ujima Playlist is live on Spotify and YouTube.
Let the drum circles, spirituals, and call-and-response rhythms carry you deeper into the principle.
Together in the work,
Sidney + Nyasha 🔥🐝
This weaving is also part of the celebration and build-up to our forthcoming children’s picture book, Once Upon a Kwanzaa, co-authored by myself (Nyasha Williams) and Sidney Rose McCall, and beautifully illustrated by Sawyer Cloud to bring the seven principles to life for the next generation. Coming September 2025, the book is our way of storytelling through a Kwanzaa lens, centering values, culture, and empowerment in a way children can carry all year long.
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