Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya KingdomThe oral sources -- 1. Central Rwanda on the eve of the emergence of the kingdom -- The country and its inhabitants -- Fields and herds: subsistence activities -- Kinship and society -- Polities -- 2. The Rwanda of Ndori -- The foundation of the kingdom -- Subsequent military campaigns: conquest or raids? -- Government: the ritual institutions -- Instruments of government: the corporations -- The realm -- 3. Toward the centralization of power -- The seizure of the herds and the land -- The armies -- At the hub: court, king, and elites -- The recasting of royal ideology during Rejugira's reign -- The weight of the state -- 4. Government in the eighteenth century -- Government from Gisanura to Rwaka -- Government under Rujugira and Ndabarasa -- Foreign relations under Gisanura and Mazimpaka -- Foreign relations under Rujugira and Ndabarasa -- 5. Social transformations in the nineteenth century -- The transformations of society -- Hutu and Tutsi -- 6. The triumph of the great families and its consequences -- Civil war and the supremacy of the elites -- Struggles for power at Gahindiro's and Rwogera's courts -- Expansion of the kingdom eastward and international trade -- A spontaneous expansion toward Lake Kivu and the land of the volcanoes? -- 7. Nightmares: the age of Rwabugiri (1867-1897) -- Political crisis and wars from 1867-1889 -- Isolation breached and the hatching of a coup d'Etat -- The nightmare of violence used as a political tool -- A balance sheet -- History and the present. |
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Introduction 35 | 3 |
Central Rwanda on the Eve of the Emergence | 14 |
The Rwanda of Ndori | 44 |
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Abrégé Armées bovines became Bufumbira Buganza Bugesera Bugoyi Bumbogo Buriza Burundi Butare Bwimba campaign cattle central Rwanda chiefs clan clients conquest corvée labor coup coup d'état court cult Cyingogo CYIRIMA d'Hertefelt and Coupez death Delmas domains dynastic elite expedition famine farmers Généalogies Gihanga Gisaka Gisanura herders Historique et chronologie history of Rwanda Hutu ibid Ibitéekerezo Ijwi Kagame Kamonyi Karagwe Kayijuka KIGERI king kingship Kinyaga Kono Lake Kivu land later Lebensgeschichte lineages Mazimpaka file MIBAMBWE Milices military Moreover Mubari MUTARA Nahimana Ndabarasa Ndori Ndori file Ndorwa Nduga Newbury Nkore Nkoronko Nyabarongo Nyaruguru Nyarwaya Nyiginya kingdom official herds Pagès pastures Physische Poésie dynastique political population probably queen mother raid realm region regnal name reign Reisdorff ritual ritualists royal Royaume hamite Royauté Rugaju RUGANZU Rujugira Rukoma Rundi Rutarindwa Rwabugiri file Rwaka Rwogera file Schumacher Semugeshi Sentabyo territorial tion traditions Tsobe Tutsi ubuhake uburetwa