History Of Rwanda

History Of Rwanda; Rwandan history is evident in many facets of society, including the political, social, and economic. Rwanda‘s history is separated into pre-colonial and post-colonial periods;

Rwanda’s Pre-colonial History

Rwanda was established by the Gihanga ruler, who began the Nyiginya dynasty from a livestock settlement called Gasabo near Lake Muhazi, which is now in the Gasabo district’s Bumbogo sector. The word Kwanda, which means “the expansion” in Kinyarwanda, is where the name RWANDA originates, as he annexed numerous regions. Gihanga unified his state before he passed away, and everyone looked up to him as their leader. They dubbed him “UMWAMI,” which is derived from the Kinyarwanda verb “KWAMA,” which means “popular.”

Faith                                                   

The Rwandan people held to the belief that there was only one God, who went by several names, including Rurema, Gihanga, and Rugira.The 20 clans known as Abanyiginya, Abega, Abagesera, Ababanda, Abasinga, Abasindi, Abazigaba, Abatsobe, Abungura, Abacyaba, Abahinda, Abashingwe, Abasita, Abarihira, Abakono, and Abenegitore were used to categorize Rwandans.   Although the Belgian colonizers created the ethnic groups known as Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa, there has long been a concept that clans are organic social units composed of biologically linked individuals.

After failing in World War I, the Germans seized control of the nation in 1890 and kept it until 1916, when the Belgians took possession.

Rwanda after colonization

The Hutu manifesto was released in 1957. Sadly, Mwami Mutara III Rudahigwa passed away on July 24, 1959.

UNAR Party was founded on September 3, 1959.   The first wave of Tutsis left their homes in 1959 to seek safety in neighboring countries such as Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after Hutu rebels under the colonial overlords set fire to them. There is an election in 1960. Rwandans decided to do away with the monarchy in 1961.

Mbonyumutwa Dominique takes office as Rwanda’s interim president on January 28, 1961.                On July 1, 1962, Rwanda gained its independence, and Kayibanda Gregory was sworn in as the country’s first president.

Major General Habyarimana executed a coup d’état to seize power in 1973.    Tutsi refugees began a liberation war in 1990.

In just three months in 1994, nearly a million people were massacred, primarily by Hutu youth gangs known as interahamwe militias, who were armed with pistols, machetes, and other traditional weapons provided by officials loyal to Habyarimana. The slaughter began on April 6 when Habyarimana Juvenale and Cyprien Ntaryamira, his counterpart from Burundi, were shot down while trying to land their jet in Kigali after attending peace talks and signing treaties in Arusha, Tanzania.