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Kinyarwanda, [3] Rwandan or Rwanda, officially known as Ikinyarwanda, [4] is a Bantu language and the national language of Rwanda. [5] It is a dialect of the Rwanda-Rundi language that is also spoken in adjacent parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Uganda , where the dialect is known as ikinyakore,Rufumbira,or Urufumbira .
The National Library of Rwanda known as "Inkoranyabitabo y'Igihugu" in Kinyarwanda, was founded in 1989 by the presidential order no 132/06 of March the 10th 1989 as a direction in Ministry of High Education and Research.
The first Banyarwanda were the people of this kingdom. According to oral history, Rwanda was founded on the shores of Lake Muhazi in the Buganza area, close to the modern city of Rwamagana. [24] [25] [26] At that time it was a small state in a loose confederation with the larger and more powerful neighbouring kingdoms, Bugesera and Gisaka. [27]
Very little literature has been written in Kinyarwanda (the native language of the country), but there are a number of books written in French. The clergyman and historian Alexis Kagame (1912–81) researched the oral history of Rwanda and published a number of volumes of poetry and Rwandan mythology.
This timeline of Rwandan history is a chronological list of major events related to the human inhabitants of Rwanda This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The Kingdom of Rwanda (also known as the Nyiginya Kingdom or Nyginya Dynasty [1]) was a Bantu kingdom in modern-day Rwanda, which grew to be ruled by a Tutsi monarchy. [2] It was one of the oldest and the most centralized kingdoms in Central and East Africa. [3]
The Bahutu, Batutsi, and Batwa are the three indigenous groups that make up the Bafumbira, they are essentially Banyarwanda and speak Kinyarwanda. [6] The Bafumbira were part of the Kingdom of Rwanda until 1910 when Kigezi was annexed to Uganda by the colonialists. In Rwanda, they were governed by chiefs who were under the leadership of the ...
The mission of the Rwanda Cultural Heritage Academy is to protect and promote the culture and language of Rwanda (Kinyarwanda). To this end, it collects, preserves and publicly exhibits objects of national cultural and natural heritage and Rwandan history, promotes cultural activities and oversees museums, archives, libraries and historical sites.