BOMA

Boma

A boma is a livestock enclosure, a stockade or kind of fort, or a district government office. The term is used in many parts of the African Great Lakes region, as well as Central and Southern Africa. It is incorporated into many African languages, as well as colonial varieties of English, French and German.

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boma

Noun

  1. An enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for protection from marauders.
  2. A stockade made of bushes and thorns.
  3. A hide.
  4. A hut.
  5. A military or police post or magistracy.
  6. A type of fertilizer rich in animal dung.
  7. A method of composting.


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