Across Africa, baobabs have rich symbolic meaning, but the breakneck expansion of the DRCs capital has reduced their number in the city centre to one The older inhabitants of Kinshasa can remember when trees shaded its main avenues and thick-trunked baobabs stood in front of government offices. Jean Mangalibi, 60, from his plant nursery tucked among grey tower blocks, says the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congos frenzied expansion has all but erased its greenery. Were destroying the city, he says, over the sound of drilling from a nearby building site.
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