To self-proclaimed experts in Rwanda’s history, this may sound fictional, but within Rwanda’s own traditions, these symbols formed the spiritual foundation of kingship. When Gihanga entrusted ...

To understand the background of events which shook Rwanda in 1994. To understand what genocide is. To understand the process and reasons which triggered the flow of refugees from Rwanda into ...

From April to July 1994, the world watched as genocide unfolded in Rwanda. A million people died as neighbors brutally attacked their neighbors with clubs and machetes. Thirty years later, the horror ...

French artist and architect Guillaume Sardin first arrived in Kigali in 2010 as a lecturer, tasked with teaching architecture to Rwandan students. What began as an academic appointment soon became a ...

In Rwanda, students may soon learn their national history for the first time since the 1994 genocide. Following the bloody ethnic conflict between the Tutsi and Hutu, the government imposed a ...

Rwanda is a beautiful nation in the heart of Africa within the Great Rift Valley, where the African Great Lakes region and southeast Africa converge. It takes pride in a rich literary history, with ...

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