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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 ...
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The National Archives of Rwanda is located in Kigali.The earliest documents held in the Rwandan archives are from the 1890s. However, in 1959, as Belgium's imperial project was dissolving, most documents from Rwandan and German colonial rule that were held in Kigali were transferred to an archive in Usumbura, Burundi, which was also a Belgian colony at the time. [1]
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.
The prevalence of this myth became the basis of the social and political stratification of Rwanda. From the fifteenth century, when the Tutsi arrived in what is now Rwanda as migrant pastoralists, to the onset of colonization, Rwanda was a feudal monarchy. A Tutsi monarch ruled, distributing land and political authority through hereditary ...
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