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Human occupation of Rwanda is thought to have begun shortly after the last ice age.By the 11th century, [1] the inhabitants had organized into a number of kingdoms. In the 19th century, Mwami Rwabugiri of the Kingdom of Rwanda conducted a decades-long process of military conquest and administrative consolidation that resulted in the kingdom coming to control most of what is now Rwanda.
The RPF forms a provisional government [1] and Pasteur Bizimungu becomes President of Rwanda. 21 August: The RPF controls the whole of Rwanda. [1] 8 November: The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is established. [8] 2000: 24 March: Paul Kagame is selected as interim President of Rwanda. [9] 22 April: Paul Kagame is sworn in as the ...
The Kingdom of Rwanda (also known as the Nyiginya Kingdom or Nyginya Dynasty [1]) was a Bantu kingdom in modern-day Rwanda, which grew to be ruled by a Tutsi monarchy. [2] It was one of the oldest and the most centralized kingdoms in Central and East Africa . [ 3 ]
This article contains a list of kings of Rwanda. The Kingdom of Rwanda was ruled by sovereigns titled mwami (plural abami), and was one of the oldest and the most centralized kingdoms in the history of Central and East Africa. Its state and affairs before King Gihanga I are largely unconfirmed and highly shrouded in mythical tales.
Rwanda joined the East African Community in 2007, and has ratified a plan for monetary union amongst the seven member nations, [177] which could eventually lead to a common East African shilling. [178] Rwanda is a country of few natural resources, [135] and the economy is based mostly on subsistence agriculture by local farmers using simple ...
The current government of Rwanda (led by the Tutsi) has “removed the identities Twa, Tutsi, and Hutu and have replaced them with a single Rwandan national identity”. [5] With the passing of laws against ethnic division and promoting genocide ideology, the Rwandan government has effectively tried to ban the concept of ethnicity in order to ...
15th century: Foundation of the Karemera dynasty in Burundi, replaced by the Baganwa dynasty before the end of the 17th century. Foundation of the Rwanda Kingdom, rules by the Naoro dynasty from the 16th century. Foundation of the Kingdoms of Ankole and Bunyoro-Kitara, in Uganda.
The Scramble for Africa [a] was the invasion, conquest, and colonisation of most of Africa by seven Western European powers driven by the Second Industrial Revolution during the late 19th century and early 20th century in the era of "New Imperialism": Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal and Spain.