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Family has settled in South Africa, initially or somewhere in Central Africa (8)

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I believe the answer is:

kinshasa

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'somewhere in central africa' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?

'family has settled in south africa initially' is the wordplay.
'family' becomes 'kin' (synonyms).
'settled in' indicates putting letters inside.
'initially' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letters of 'south africa' is 'sa'.
'has' inserted within 'sa' is 'shasa'.
'kin'+'shasa'='KINSHASA'

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(Other definitions for kinshasa that I've seen before include "Shank is a strange African city" , "Congolese port" , "Capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo" , "Capital of Zaire" , "It was formerly Leopoldville" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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