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Boma

Port in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on the estuary of the Congo River, 88 km/55 mi from the Atlantic; population (1991) 246,000. The oldest European settlement in the Democratic Republic of Congo, it was a centre of the slave trade, and capital of the Belgian Congo until 1927. Boma is now an important commercial centre.



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With the waning of her fears she became sufficiently emboldened to question him, and so she asked him what he intended doing after the hut and boma were completed.
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It was a joyous reception the little party received when the blacks within the BOMA saw the long file of fettered friends and relatives enter the firelight.
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In a rude circle about them they had constructed a thorn boma which, with the aid of the fire, they apparently hoped would discourage the advances of the larger carnivora.
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