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ujamaas

ujamaas is the plural of ujamaa.

Meaning of ujamaa

Noun

ujamaa (countable and uncountable, plural ujamaas)

  1. (uncountable) A socialist ideology of cooperation and collective advancement that formed the basis of socioeconomic policies in Tanzania in the 1960s.
    • 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...1983 December 30, Ron Alexander, “The Evening Hours”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2022, page B7
  2. (countable) A village built according to this ideology, with central homes and school surrounded by communal farmland.

Questions about ujamaas

What is ujamaas the plural of?
Ujamaas is the plural of ujamaa.

Words near ujamaas in the dictionary

  1. Uivar
  2. UJA
  3. Ujah
  4. Ujahs
  5. ujamaa
  6. ujamaas
  7. uji
  8. Ujiiye
  9. Ujiiyes
  10. Ujiji
  11. ujima

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