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noun
A socialist ideology of cooperation and collective advancement that formed the basis of socioeconomic policies in Tanzania in the 1960s.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
A village built according to this ideology, with central homes and school surrounded by communal farmland.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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History
Borrowed from Swahili ujamaa (“brotherhood, extended family”), from jamaa (“family”), from Arabic جَمَاعَة (jamāʕa, “group (of people)”).
