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Zomba

American  
[zom-buh] / ˈzɒm bə /

noun

  1. a city in and former capital of Malawi in the S part.


Zomba British  
/ ˈzɒmbə /

noun

  1. a city in S Malawi: the capital of Malawi until 1971. Pop: 101 423 (2005)

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It should be noted that the film was bankrolled by a wing of the Zomba Group, whose Jive Records label was home to Spears, the Backstreet Boys and R. Kelly.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2023

The presidential residence State House in the southern city of Zomba soon will be turned into a 100-bed treatment facility, according to officials.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2021

The presidential residence State House in the southern city of Zomba soon will be turned into a 100-bed treatment facility, according to officials.

From Washington Times • Feb. 3, 2021

They included a rapper named Tiffany “Tia” Hawkins, who in 1996 sued Jive and Calder’s Zomba Recording Corporation, accusing Kelly of picking her up during a visit to his old high school, Kenwood Academy.

From Washington Post • May 4, 2018

One day beyond Zomba and W.S.W. is the part called Chindando, where the Portuguese formerly went for gold.

From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Waller, Horace