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Harambee

2 stages from Swahili to English.

Today it means a tradition of communal effort and mutual assistance, especially in East Africa
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Stage 1 of 2
harambee
Swahili · medieval
"let us pull together"
literally let us pull together, a call for communal effort and cooperation
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Stage 2 of 2
harambee
English · 1960s
"a spirit of communal effort and cooperation"
adopted directly as Kenya's national motto of collective self-help
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