Umoja
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Umoja is the Swahili
word for "unity". It may also refer to:
, a Lake Victoria ferry
in East Africa
Swahili language
Swahili or Kiswahili is a Bantu language spoken by various ethnic groups that inhabit several large stretches of the Mozambique Channel coastline from northern Kenya to northern Mozambique, including the Comoro Islands. It is also spoken by ethnic minority groups in Somalia...
word for "unity". It may also refer to:
, a Lake Victoria ferry
Lake Victoria ferries
Lake Victoria ferries are motor ships carrying freight and passengers between Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya on Lake Victoria...
in East Africa
- Operation Umoja Wetu, the name for the 2009 Eastern Congo offensive2009 Eastern Congo offensiveThe 2009 Eastern Congo offensive was a joint Congo-Rwanda military offensive against the Hutu FDLR rebel group descended from those groups that carried out the 1994 Rwanda genocide...
- Umoja, Nairobi, a suburb in NairobiNairobiNairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The city and its surrounding area also forms the Nairobi County. The name "Nairobi" comes from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nyirobi, which translates to "the place of cool waters". However, it is popularly known as the "Green City in the Sun" and is...
, the capital of Kenya - Umoja, KenyaUmoja, KenyaUmoja is an all-female village located in northern Kenya near the town of Archers Post in Samburu District, 380 km from the capital, Nairobi. It was founded by Rebecca Lolosoli, a Samburu woman, for homeless survivors of gender-based violence, and young girls running from forced marriages...
, an all-female village founded on the principles of women's rights. - Umoja VillageUmoja VillageThe Umoja Village shantytown was founded on October 23, 2006, in the Liberty City section of Miami, Florida, in response to gentrification and a lack of low-income housing in Miami. The name Umoja is Swahili for "unity", hence "Unity Village"....
, a former shanty town in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, Florida - Umoja (StarCraft), a Terran colony in the StarCraft science-fiction series.
- Umoja (album)Umoja (album)Umoja is an album made by the Dutch band BLØF. It was made in 2006. It was produced with help of many foreign artists. It had already been sold 50.000 times before it was released. It was the number one album sold in the Netherlands in the month after the release date. Umoja is Swahili for 'be...
, released in 2006 by Dutch pop band Bløf - Umoja, an Enterprise Resource PlanningEnterprise resource planningEnterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...
project in the United Nations