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
The Twa were the earliest of the Banyarwanda groups to settle in the territory of Rwanda
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
Banyarwanda
…in the royal court, but their numbers continued to decline. The first exodus of ethnic Banyarwanda from the jurisdiction of the Rwanda kingdom was the Banyamulenge, who crossed the Rusizi river into the South Kivu province of the Belgian Congo. Rwandan historian Alexis Kagame wrote in 1972 that soldiers under King…
Banyamulenge children
Mixed group of Banyamulenge and Bafuliru repairing a road between Lemera and Mulenge, South Kivu, c. 2003