INTRODUCTION OF THE RWANDAN HISTORY

RWANDA is a small land locked country located in centre part of AFRICA sharing borders with UGANDA in the north, BURUNDI in the south, TANZANIA in the east and DRC in the west.

LOCATION

The region in which RWANDA reside is commonly known as the great lakes region, Rwanda has a population of around 8.6 million implying that it’s the most populated country in Africa , its located between altitude of 1° south and 3° south of the equator and between 29°east and 31°east of the Greenwich meridian

RWANDA FEATURES

Rwanda is commonly referred as country of thousand hills because of it’s beautiful scenery (natural beautiful of the landscape) its well known for having mountain gorillas which are not common almost on the continent of Africa, not forgetting that recently it was found that it is the source of the longest river in Africa (River .NILE)

BACK HISTORY OF RWANDA



Rwanda dates to the days before coming of the colonial masters it was ruled by kings known as ABAMI, the official language of Rwanda is known as KINYARWANDA, and it’s the only language spoken by the three tribal groups. Namely;

1. TUSTI
2. HUTU
3. TWA. Who are the minority

Before the occupation of Rwanda by its first occupants the land was covered with trees and grass. The Twa are said to have been mostly found in the central of African forests. The HUTU are the second to settle in Rwanda, they are believed to have come from Cameroun around Lake Chad. In Rwanda they settled in the western side of Rwanda. Finally came the TUSTI who are said to have originated form north east part of Africa in the Ethiopian highlands and Sudan they settled in the west of Lake Muhazi.
The Hutu group of people is the largest group in Rwanda and they were mainly farmers .The tusti are the cattle keepers and they came in Rwanda looking for pasture and water for their animals. The TWA are the smallest group and they were mainly iron smelters.
The Tusti group of people dominated in terms of leadership and was the ruling group; all the kings were selected from this group before the coming of colonial masters. The kings of Rwanda were selected from the clan known as the banyiginya.There was an organized forum of succession and a king would be succeeded by his son only.

FOUNDATION OF RWANDA
Rwanda was founded by the king known as Gihanga who started his dynasty from a place called Gasabo near lake muhazi in the western part of Rwanda.Gihanga organized his small state politically well that he expended it and called it Rwanda meaning a big place since he had annexed many different areas. Before he died Gihanga had organized his state and all the in habitants respected only one leader whom they called Umwami which came from the verb Kwama meaning being popular
After the death of Gihanga, he was replaced by king Kigeli 1 Muhabanya who expanded the small state Gasabo a vast kingdom. It started to disintegrate due to succession disputes, the kings that followed the succession were: Ruganzu Burimbi who ruled from 1312 to 1345 ac ,Cyirima 1 Rugwe ruling from 1345 to 1378,kigeli 2 Mukobanyi Yuhi ,Mibambwe 1 Sekarango ,Ndahiro Cyahintare ,ruganzu and many more later followed by the coming of Germany colonialist
RELIGION
The Banyarwanda believed in one God known by different names for example; Rurema, Gihanga, Rugina, were the names given to God.
There different religions in Rwanda such as Protestants, catholics, Islam among others.
Rwanda stable foods are potatoes and bananas are also eaten by same people .Agriculture is mainly carried out by the Hutu group of people .Rwanda chief export is coffee.