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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.
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).
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.
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 ]
Map showing major suburbs of Kigali. Kigali's central business district (CBD), sometimes known in English by the Kinyarwanda term mu mujyi ("in town"), is on Nyarugenge Hill and was the site of the original city founded by Richard Kandt in 1907. [26] The house that Kandt lived in is now the Kandt House Museum of Natural History. [5]
Writer Birth Year Death Year Brief Description Notes Amata Giramata: 1996 Alive Poet, feminist, writer and activist Maggy Correa: French-language autobiographical writer
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.
Banyamulenge is a community that lives mainly in South Kivu province. 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 language (spoken by Ha people, one of the largest ethnic groups in ethnically diverse Tanzania), and Swahili.