The Banyamulenge are a community that lives mainly in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and trace their ancestral origins to what is now Rwanda, Tanzania,Burundi and Uganda. Their main lan
Banyamulenge children
Mixed group of Banyamulenge and Bafuliru repairing a road between Lemera and Mulenge, South Kivu, c. 2003
The Banyarwanda are a Bantu ethnolinguistic supraethnicity native to the northern African Great Lakes region, primarily the modern countries of Rwanda and Burundi. The Banyarwanda are also ethnic mino
Banyamulenge
…because various tribes had been in conflict over where the newcomers would stay to herd their sheep. They were thus given the Mulenge Mountain to herd. Banyarwanda migrants continued to arrive, particularly as labourers, during the colonial period. The Union Minière du Haut Katanga recruited more than 7000 workers…
The Twa were the earliest of the Banyarwanda groups to settle in the territory of Rwanda