The Kingdom of Rwanda was a Bantu kingdom in modern-day Rwanda, which grew to be ruled by a Tutsi monarchy. [1] It was one of the oldest and the most centralized kingdoms in Central and East Africa. [2] It was later annexed under German and Belgian colonial rule while retaining some of …

Kingdom of Rwanda, traditional East African state, now the Republic of Rwanda. The area is believed to have been settled by the Hutu sometime between the 5th and the 11th century and then by the Tutsi beginning in the 14th century. The Tutsi, a pastoral people, established dominance over the Hutu,

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.

Tutsi traditions trace the birth of the Rwanda kingdom to the miraculous feats of its founding hero, Gihanga, whose coming to Rwanda is said to have coincided with the advent of civilization.

2021年4月10日 · The Kingdom of Rwanda was a pre-colonial Bantu kingdom in East Africa that survived under German and Belgian colonial rule with some autonomy intact until its monarchy was abolished in the Rwandan Revolution in 1961.

By the 11th century, [1] the inhabitants had organized into a number of kingdoms. In the 19th century, Mwami (king) 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.

Gihanga is well known in Rwandan traditions as a superhero and the first king who established the Kingdom of Rwanda. A skilled woodworker, blacksmith and tannery, Gihanga was an...

Kigeli IV Rwabugiri was the king of the Kingdom of Rwanda in the late 19th century. He was among the last Nyiginya kings in a ruling dynasty that had traced their lineage back four centuries to Gihanga, the first ‘historical’ mwami of Rwanda whose exploits are celebrated in …

2024年10月12日 · The Kingdom of Rwanda was a precolonial kingdom in East Africa which survived with some of its autonomy intact under German and Belgian colonial rule until its monarchy was abolished in the Rwandan Revolution. After a 1961 referendum, Rwanda became a republic and received its independence in 1962.

Oral history suggests the kingdom of Rwanda formed in the late 10th or 11th century, founded by a Tutsi King called Ghihanga. The kingdoms of Rwanda began coalescing in the 11th century. In the...