ujamaa

English

From Swahili ujamaa (“brotherhood, extended family”), from jamaa (“family”), from Arabic جَمَاعَة (jamāʕa, “group (of people)”).

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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.
- 2021 January 30, Christina Morales, “A 10-Year-Old GameStop Investor Cashed In. His Return? Over 5,000%”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:
  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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ujamaa

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From u- (“-ness”) +‎ jamaa (“family”).

ujamaa (u class, no plural)