Kinshasan

English

Etymology

From Kinshasa +‎ -an.

Adjective

Kinshasan (comparative more Kinshasan, superlative most Kinshasan)

1. Of or relating to Kinshasa, capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Noun

Kinshasan (plural Kinshasans)

1. A native or inhabitant of Kinshasa.
   • 2002, Frank Tenaille, translated by Steven Toussaint and Hope Sandrine, Music Is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African Popular Music, Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, →ISBN, page 182:

     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.