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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 .
In the 16th century, Burundi was a kingdom characterized by a hierarchical political authority and tributary economic exchange. A mwami headed a princely aristocracy which owned most of the land governing its subjects with superiority and required a tribute, or tax, from local farmers and herders who lived in forests.
This is a filmography for films and artistry on the graphic, theatrical and conventional, documental portrayal of the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsis in 1994. In 2005 Alison Des Forges wrote that eleven years after the genocide films for popular audiences on the subject greatly increased "widespread realization of the horror that had taken the lives of more than half a million Tutsi".
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 ...
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.
The Party for the Restoration of Monarchy and Dialogue (French: Parti pour la restauration de la monarchie et la dialogue), more well-known by its nickname Abahuza (lit. ' Come Together ' in Kirundi), is a constitutional monarchist political party in Burundi seeking a moderated return of the monarchy which reigned over the Kingdom of Burundi shortly after independence.
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.
Television in Burundi was introduced in 1984, with coverage having national reach in 1992. [1] As of 2004 there was still only one television service, the government-owned Télévision Nationale du Burundi .