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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 ...
The Watusi / w ɑː t uː s i / is a solo dance that enjoyed brief popularity during the early 1960s. [1] It was one of the most popular dance crazes of the 1960s in the United States. [ 2 ] " Watusi" is a former name for the Tutsi people of Africa, whose traditions include spectacular dances.
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.
While the Rwandan Constitution states that over 1 million people were killed, most scholarly estimates suggest between 500,000 and 662,000 Tutsi died. [5] [6] The genocide was marked by extreme violence, with victims often murdered by neighbors, and widespread sexual violence, with between 250,000 and 500,000 women raped. [7] [3]
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.
The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each ethnicity generally having their own language (or dialect of a language) and culture. The ethnolinguistic groups include various Afroasiatic , Khoisan , Niger-Congo , and Nilo-Saharan populations.
Ethnic violence peaked in 1972 when 100,000 people, mainly Hutu, were killed by the Tutsi regime in the Ikiza, the first of what is known as the Burundian genocides. [5] With discontent greatly building up, the event started with a Hutu rebellion in the Imbo region against the Micombero government, calling for a replacement of the monarchy.