| 释义 |
Uhuru|ʊˈhuːruː|
Also uhuru.
[a. Swahili, = freedom.]
National independence of an African country, spec. Kenya.
1961Times 4 Aug. 11/5 The British base in Kenya will be liquidated, all British troops evacuated, and the police totally Africanized. These are the basic conditions of uhuru. 1976Drum (E. Afr. ed.) June 4/2 Kenya became independent in 1963. Much has been done to defend and demonstrate the hard-won uhuru. 1980Oxford Diocesan Mag. Jan. 18/1 Any Christian struggle for uhuru in South Africa must involve the church as well as the state. 1982D. Bagley Windfall xx. 192 The coming of Uhuru [to Kenya] must have been painful for the [club] membership who had to adapt to a determinedly multiracial society. 1984Listener 24 May 11/1 An entire continent has seemed hell-bent on self-destruction, despite uhuru, despite the bright hopes of the many thousands who died seeking it. |