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The Tutsi (/ ˈ t ʊ t s i / [2]), also called Watusi, Watutsi or Abatutsi (Kinyarwanda pronunciation: [ɑ.βɑ.tuː.t͡si]), are an ethnic group of the African Great Lakes region. [3] They are a Bantu -speaking [ 4 ] ethnic group and the second largest of three main ethnic groups in Rwanda and Burundi (the other two being the largest Bantu ...
Watusi" is a former name for the Tutsi people of Africa, whose traditions include spectacular dances. [3] [4] The naming of the American dance may have been inspired, in particular, by a scene in the 1950 film King Solomon's Mines which featured Tutsi dancers, or by its sequel Watusi.
The ability to digest lactose among African adults is widespread only among desert-dwelling nomadic groups that have depended upon milk for millennia. Three quarters of the adult Tutsi of Rwanda and Burundi have a high ability to digest lactose, while only 5% of the adults of the neighboring Shi people of eastern Congo can. Among Hutu, one in ...
Watusi or Watusis may refer to one of the following: Tutsi, an African ethnic group; Watusi, 1994 studio album by The Wedding Present; Watusi (dance), a solo dance from the early 1960s; Watusi, a 1959 film with George Montgomery and Taina Elg; Watusi (firework), a type of firecracker; Watusi cattle, a modern American breed of domestic cattle.
The tribe is located 100 miles away from where Michael Rockefeller, a son of then-New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, disappeared in 1961. He is thought to be a victim of an another Papuan tribe.
Modern-day genetic studies of the Y-chromosome generally indicate that the Tutsi, like the Hutu, are largely of Bantu extraction (60%E1b1a, 20% B, 4% E3).Paternal genetic influences associated with the Horn of Africa and North Africa are few (16% E1b1b), and are ascribed to much earlier inhabitants who were assimilated.
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It is not clear how many people were killed in the fighting between the M23 and the army and pro-government militias. The town was reported to be quiet on Sunday. Chinese nationals arrested with ...