Thereafter, first under a League of Nations mandate and then under the U.N., Belgium continued to rule Ruanda and Urundi through a master tribe of willowy African giants named the Watutsis.

When one well-to-do Ruandan greets another, he places his hands lightly on his friend's elbows and says: "/ sho, sho, sho, gir inka" (I hope your cows are doing well). The friend ...

A critical essay on Belgian colonial policy and on the steps that should be taken to prepare the way for independence of the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi. Vers L'indépendance Du Congo Et Du ...

This article originally stated that King Kigeli V was born in 1936 in the-then kingdom of Ruanda-Urundi. Ruanda-Urundi was actually a Belgium colonial mandate, not a kingdom.

Ruanda-Urundi. I did not come to that knowledge from political science. It was from my sociology class as a fresh undergraduate student at Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria.

Though the Ruanda-Urundi territory was under the same colonial administration with a resident general, each country had its own local administration topped by the King as Head of state. Ruanda had ...

Belgium's Prime Minister Charles Michel has formally apologized for the country's role in kidnapping mixed-race children from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi between 1959 and ...

Though the Ruanda-Urundi territory was under the same colonial administration with a resident general, each country had its own local administration topped by the King as Head of state. Ruanda had ...