ujamaa

English

Borrowed 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.
- 1983 December 30, Ron Alexander, “The Evening Hours”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 3 January 2022, page B7:
  On Tuesday night at the Club Serene in Brooklyn, Mayor Koch proclaimed Kwanzaa Week in New York. Then he told the crowd of about 400 that he had practiced his Swahili in order to pronounce correctly such exotic-sounding words as kujichagulia (self-determination), ujamaa (cooperative economics) and imani (faith), the theme of Kwanzaa '83.
- 2021 January 30, Christina Morales, “A 10-Year-Old GameStop Investor Cashed In. His Return? Over 5,000%”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 22 February 2021:
  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

Wikipedia ^sw

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

ujamaa class XI (no plural)