Rwanda

Nethra Narayanan

Rwanda is bordered by the countries Burundi, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. The capital of Rwanda is Kigali, and the languages spoken in the country are Rwanda, French, English, Swahili.

It was believed that the first ethnic group to inhabit Rwanda were the Twa, followed by the Hutu between the 5th and 11th century, and later in the 14th century the Tutsi arrived. The majority were the Hutu, with a minority of Tutsis and very small percent of Twa.

All of the groups speak the same language, Rwanda (or Kinyarwanda). People in each ethnic group were not all generalized to look only one certain type of way.

The government was a centralized monarchy with a leader called the Mwami. There were cattle chiefs, land chiefs and military chiefs who worked under the Mwami. The social structure was with Tutsi nobility at the top, Hutus in the middle class. The Tutsi had social, economic and political dominance compared to the Hutu, who were mainly farmers. The Hutu and Tutsi were generally on good terms pre-colonization.

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