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Very little literature has been written in Kinyarwanda (the native language of the country), but there are a number of books written in French. The clergyman and historian Alexis Kagame (1912–81) researched the oral history of Rwanda and published a number of volumes of poetry and Rwandan mythology.
Yuhi III Mazimpaka (scientific orthography: Yuhi wa Gatatu Mazimpakâ) was the Mwami (King) of kingdom of Rwanda from 1735 to 1766. [1]He is remembered as having been an exceptionally handsome young king.
The name Ibitekerezo is derived from the Kinyarwanda verb gutekereza, which means "to recount, reflect, or consider". [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Before Rwanda was colonized by the Germans in the late 19th century and later the Belgians after World War I , the history of the national heroes of Rwanda was known to the people through Ibitekerezo. [ 7 ]
At Kabuye IV, a furnace crucible from 240 to 400 AD shows the earliest evidence of iron smelting at this region. Kabuye III has a crucible dating to 420-600 AD and Kabuye II has a crucible dating to 560-690 AD. The sample from Kabuye II was taken from a sealed pot at the base of the crucible. [3] Cereal pollens were found at all three sites.
Alexis Kagame (15 May 1912 – 2 December 1981) was a Rwandan philosopher, linguist, historian, poet and Catholic priest.His main contributions were in the fields of ethnohistory and "ethnophilosophy" (the study of indigenous philosophical systems).
Kinyarwanda, [3] Rwandan or Rwanda, officially known as Ikinyarwanda, [4] is a Bantu language and the national language of Rwanda. [5] It is a dialect of the Rwanda-Rundi language that is also spoken in adjacent parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Uganda , where the dialect is known as Rufumbira or Urufumbira .
With more than 10 million Kinyarwanda speakers, [87] and around 20 million for Rwanda-Rundi as a whole, [87] it is one of the largest of the Bantu languages. [88] The language was likely to have been introduced to the area from Cameroon during the Bantu expansion , although the timescale and nature of this migration is not known conclusively ...
The provinces of Rwanda (Kinyarwanda: intara) are divided into districts (akarere) and municipalities (umujyi). Prior to January 1, 2006, Rwanda was composed of 12 provinces. The Rwandan government decided to establish new provinces in an attempt to address issues that arose from the Rwandan genocide. The new provinces were to be "ethnically ...