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Definition of ujamaa noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

ujamaa

noun

/ˌuːdʒəˈmɑː/

/ˌuːdʒəˈmɑː/

East African English [uˈdʒamaː]

[uncountable] (East African English)

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(in Tanzania) socialism
Word OriginKiswahili, literally ‘brotherhood’, from jamaa ‘family’, from Arabic jamā‘a ‘community’.

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