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Kinshasan
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English
Etymology
From en Kinshasa an.
Adjective
Of or relating to Kinshasa, capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Noun
A native or inhabitant of Kinshasa.
en 2002 Frank Tenaille Steven Toussaint; Hope Sandrine Music Is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African Popular Music Chicago, IL w:Lawrence Hill Books 1556524501 182 https://archive.org/details/musicisweaponoff00tena/page/182/mode/2up?q=Kinshasans This initiative gave birth to an urban movement, the SAPE: a way of expressing an identity that was antipoverty, antidepression, and antipower (because it opposed the abas-cost, the uniform imposed by Mobutu) for thousands of young Kinshasans, as well as for Brazzavillians on the other side of the Congo River.
en Demonyms Democratic Republic of the Congo