harambee

Borrowed from Swahili harambee.

harambee (plural harambees)

1. A traditional Kenyan community self-help event or organization.
   • 2003, M. P. Cowen, Doctrines Of Development, page 296:

     The tension between spontaneity and control, which is at the core of nearly all analyses of harambee, is usually supposed to be that between the contending forces of 'the people' and the state.

Uncertain.

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harambee

1. let's pull together!

This was originally used by workmen, but is now chiefly used as a political slogan in Kenya.

harambee (n class, plural harambee)

1. (Kenya) harambee