Antecedents to modern Rwanda : the Nyiginya Kingdom
Jan Vansina (Author, Translator)
To understand the genocide and other dramatic events of Rwanda's recent past, one must understand the history of the earlier realm. Jan Vansina provides a critique of the history recorded by early missionaries and court historians.
Print Book, English, ©2004
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis., ©2004
History
xiii, 354 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
9780299201203, 9780299201241, 0299201201, 0299201244
54952904
The 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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