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English
Etymology
From Brazzaville + -ian.
Adjective
Brazzavillian (comparative more Brazzavillian, superlative most Brazzavillian)
- Of or relating to the city of Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of the Congo.
Noun
Brazzavillian (plural Brazzavillians)
- A native or inhabitant of Brazzaville.
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.