ujamaa
English
Etymology
From Swahili ujamaa (“brotherhood, extended family”), from jamaa (“family”), from Arabic جَمَاعَة (jamāʕa, “group (of people)”).
Noun
ujamaa (countable and uncountable, plural ujamaas)
- (uncountable) A socialist ideology of cooperation and collective advancement that formed the basis of socioeconomic policies in Tanzania in the 1960s.
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- She told him the gift was in keeping with the spirit of ujamaa, or cooperative economics, one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa.
- (countable) A village built according to this ideology, with central homes and school surrounded by communal farmland.
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