Brazzavillian

English

Alternative forms

• Brazzavillean

Etymology

From Brazzaville +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Brazzavillian (comparative more Brazzavillian, superlative most Brazzavillian)

1. Of or relating to the city of Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of the Congo.

Noun

Brazzavillian (plural Brazzavillians)

1. 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.