ujamaa
noun/ˌuːdʒəˈmɑː/
/ˌuːdʒəˈmɑː/
East African English [uˈdʒamaː]
[uncountable] (East African English)- (in Tanzania) socialismWord OriginKiswahili, literally ‘brotherhood’, from jamaa ‘family’, from Arabic jamā‘a ‘community’.
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