FromSwahiliujamaa(“brotherhood, extended family”), fromjamaa(“family”), fromArabicجَمَاعَة(jamāʕa,“group (of people)”).
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ujamaa (countable anduncountable,pluralujamaas)
- (uncountable) Asocialistideology ofcooperation andcollectiveadvancement that formed the basis ofsocioeconomicpolicies inTanzania in the 1960s.
2021 January 30, Christina Morales, “A 10-Year-Old GameStop Investor Cashed In. His Return? Over 5,000%”, inThe New York Times[1],→ISSN:She told him the gift was in keeping with the spirit ofujamaa, or cooperative economics, one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa.
- (countable) Avillage built according to this ideology, with central homes and school surrounded bycommunalfarmland.
Fromu-(“-ness”) +jamaa(“family”).
ujamaa classXI (no plural)
- brotherhood
- socialism
