Kinshasa is Africa's third-largest metropolitan area after Cairo and Lagos.
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17 Facts About Kinshasa
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Kinshasa initiated a policy of "Authenticity, " attempting to renativize the names of people and places in the country.
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Kinshasa suffered greatly from Mobutu's excesses, mass corruption, nepotism and the civil war that led to his downfall.
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Kinshasa is a city of sharp contrasts, with affluent residential and commercial areas and three universities alongside sprawling slums.
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The river is an important source of hydroelectric power, and downstream from Kinshasa it has the potential to generate power equivalent to the usage of roughly half of Africa's population.
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Kinshasa is both a city and a province, one of the 26 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Kinshasa is the largest officially Francophone city in the world, although Lingala is widely used as a spoken language.
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Kinshasa is the primate city of the DRC with a population several times larger than the next-largest city, Lubumbashi.
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Chinese entrepreneurs are gaining an increasing share of local marketplaces in Kinshasa, displacing in the process formerly successful Congolese, West African, Indian, and Lebanese merchants.
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Kinshasa is home to several higher-level education institutes, covering a wide range of specialities, from civil engineering to nursing and journalism.
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Kinshasa is the home to much of the Congo's intelligentsia, including a political class which developed during the Mobutu era.
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Kinshasa has a flourishing music scene which, since the 1960s, has operated under the patronage of the city's elite.
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Pop culture ideal type in Kinshasa is the mikiliste, a fashionable person with money who has traveled to Europe.
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Kinshasa is home to several media outlets, including radio and television stations, including state-run Radio-Television nationale congolaise and privately run Digital Congo and Raga TV.
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In 1974, Kinshasa hosted The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, in which Ali defeated Foreman, to regain the World Heavyweight title.
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Kinshasa is home to the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo including:.
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The face of Kinshasa is changing as new buildings are being built on the Boulevard du 30 Juin: Crown Tower and Congofutur Tower.
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