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The Kingdom of Burundi (French: Royaume du Burundi), also known as Kingdom of Urundi (Kirundi: Ubwami bw'Urundi), was a Bantu kingdom in the modern-day Republic of Burundi. The Ganwa monarchs (with the title of mwami ) ruled over both Hutus and Tutsis .
Burundian films (2 C) F. Films set in Burundi (5 P) Films shot in Burundi (4 P) P. ... Pages in category "Cinema of Burundi" This category contains only the following ...
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. K. Kings of Burundi (10 P) M. Monarchism in Burundi (1 C, 1 P) ... Kingdom of Burundi; G. Gishora; K ...
After the civil war, the Burundi film industry was revived in 2007, when Canadian filmmaker Christopher Redmond and Raymond Kalisa, a videographer from Rwanda, co-founded the Burundi Film Centre [4] as a training ground for aspiring filmmakers. They recruited 36 young Burundians for a two-month training in film theory and production. [5]
The Kingdom of Burundi or Urundi, in the Great Lakes region was a polity ruled by a traditional monarch with several princes beneath him; succession struggles were common. [6] The king, known as the mwami (translated as ruler) headed a princely aristocracy ( ganwa ) which owned most of the land and required a tribute, or tax, from local farmers ...
This article contains two versions of the list of kings of Burundi, the traditional version before 1680 and the modern genealogy. The Kingdom of Burundi was ruled by sovereigns, titled mwami (plural abami), whose regnal names followed a cycle: Ntare (meaning 'lion'), Mwezi (meaning 'moon'), Mutaga, and Mwambutsa. Traditionally, it was thought ...
The Ikiza (variously translated from Kirundi as the Catastrophe, the Great Calamity, and the Scourge), or the Ubwicanyi (Killings), was a series of mass killings—often characterised as a genocide—which were committed in Burundi in 1972 by the Tutsi-dominated army and government, primarily against educated and elite Hutus who lived in the country.
Ruanda-Urundi (dark green) depicted within the Belgian colonial empire (light green), 1935.This is a list of European colonial administrators responsible for the territory of Ruanda-Urundi, an area equivalent to modern-day Rwanda and Burundi.