Ujamaa

Quick meaning: Ujamaa is a noun meaning (countable) A village built according to this ideology, with central homes and school surrounded by communal farmland.

Meaning

(countable) A village built according to this ideology, with central homes and school surrounded by communal farmland.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) A socialist ideology of cooperation and collective advancement that formed the basis of socioeconomic policies in Tanzania in the 1960s.

Example Sentences

She told him the gift was in keeping with the spirit of ujamaa, or cooperative economics, one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa.

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.

Word Forms

• ujamaas

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include associatism, cooperationism, mutualism, anarcho-collectivism, collectivism, communalism.

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