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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 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 ...
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 ...
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 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 first recording of film in Burundi occured in 1980 when Burundian Jean-Michel Hussi Nyamusimba produced the first Burundi film, a French coproduction called Ni-Ni. [2] In 1992 Burundi’s first feature film, Gito l’Ingrat was released, a Swiss-French Burundi co-production directed by Leonce Ngabo. [1]
Ririkumutima was born in the mid-nineteenth century in the Kingdom of Burundi, [2] the third daughter of Chief Sekawonyi of the Watussi Munyakarama clan by his wife Inankinso. [3] One of thirteen wives of Mwezi Gisabo (ca. 1850 – 1908), king of Burundi, Ririkumutima gave birth to three daughters and six sons.