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The Banyarwanda are also minorities in neighboring DR Congo, Uganda and Tanzania. Although the ethnic make-up of Burundi is similar to that of Rwanda, Banyarwanda is a political neologism used solely in Rwanda since the 1990s in order to mitigate ethnic division within the country following the Rwandan Civil War and the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
The Bahutu, Batutsi, and Batwa are the three indigenous groups that make up the Bafumbira, they are essentially Banyarwanda and speak Kinyarwanda. [6] The Bafumbira were part of the Kingdom of Rwanda until 1910 when Kigezi was annexed to Uganda by the colonialists. In Rwanda, they were governed by chiefs who were under the leadership of the ...
This category is for individual people from Banyarwanda ethnic groups. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. H.
The term Banyarwanda refers to Rwandan colonials or nationals who, between the end of World War I and 1960 emigrated to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The term is used to distinguish them from Banyamulenge, Rwandans who emigrated in a wave in the 19th century. They acquired Congolese citizenship at independence from Belgium on 30 June 1960.
The Bazigaba or Zigaba clan is a large multi-tribal clan of the great Banyakitara people in the African Great Lakes region. One who belongs to this clan is called Omuzigaba/ Muzigaba/Umuzigaba and the plural is Abazigaba.
The Banyamulenge are a community that lives mainly in South Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.The Banyamulenge are not culturally and socially distinct from the Tutsi of South Kivu, with most speaking Kinyamulenge, a mix of Kinyarwanda (official language of Rwanda), Kirundi (spoken primarily in Burundi), [1] Ha (spoken by the Ha people, one of the largest ethnic groups in ...
Banyarwanda people (2 C) H. Hutu (1 C, 9 P) T. Tutsi (2 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Banyarwanda" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
This is particularly the case with Central Asian countries, where one form tends to relate to the nation and the other tends to relate to the predominant ethnic group (e.g. Uzbek is primarily an ethnicity, Uzbekistani relates to citizens of Uzbekistan).