Élisabethville
Britishnoun
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Elisabeth Tshala Muana Muidikay was born on March 13, 1958, in Élisabethville, in what was then the Belgian Congo; the city is now Lubumbashi, the second largest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
From New York Times
“Better beaten than eaten,” the bloodied U.N. official quipped to a group of reporters in 1961, just moments after surviving a beating by Congolese secessionists in Elisabethville.
From Washington Post
“I prefer a-akento akwa Elisabethville.”
From Literature
“And what is so special about women from Elisabethville?”
From Literature
They swat it away and step into the Belgian’s meticulously polished office in Elisabethville.
From Literature
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