Zairian

Examples

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• I will focus on the Kenyan and Zairian cases as representative of eastern and central African precolonial societies.

  Academic text (1995)

• Belgian business interests most likely will attempt to remain involved in acquiring contracts for development projects in Zaire, professing a long-standing knowledge of Zairian social conditions and of the Zairian people.

  Academic text (1992)

• The church and its leaders form only one, albeit significant, element in this new Zairian political constellation.

  Academic text (1992)

• In addition, a Zairian priest took charge of the church's large school system in 1961.

  Academic text (1992)

• Has the Zairian Catholic Church, often described as "the only corporate group sufficiently powerful even to think of sustaining opposition to the government," entered a period of new political activism?

  Academic text (1992)

• Rwanda's internal ethnic conflicts became intertwined in the complex web of Zairian domestic political contestation during the waning days of Mobutu's regime.

  Academic text (2002)

• The Zairian economy is still an unbalanced export-import economy where more than 80% of Zairian bilateral and multilateral economic relations are with industrial countries; only 2% of Zaire's exports went to other African states in 1982.

  Academic text (1992)

• It was defined by some well-known Zairian philosophers of authenticity as: "the search of self, re-definition, and the self-recovery for the need of self-realization."

  Academic text (1992)

• With his armchair amanuensis, T. A. Joyce of the British Museum, he began publishing a series of firsthand ethnographic accounts of various Zairian peoples in 1905.

  Academic text (1991)

• But since this epistemic dependence that bothered the Zairian philosopher does not entirely interrupt the production of political societies, there is an urgent need to trace a paradigm that takes greater account of their trajectories.

  Academic text (1992)

Synonyms

C

Congolese

vsZairian

10 5.4

Relating to the people, language, or culture of the Congo

is specific to the former country rather than the wider region

Z

Zairean

vsZairian

1 7.5

Relating to Zaire, now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or its people

has identical meaning but uses a different spelling form

Z

Zairese

vsZairian

9.1

Relating to Zaire, the country now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo

has identical meaning but uses the other spelling form

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