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During President Gregoire Kayibanda’s rule, he solely wielded the judicial powers. The constitution stipulated the president and cabinet ministers would exercise the executive powers.

How Kayibanda’s PARMEHUTU eliminated opposition parties

Friday, February 28, 2025
The Tutsi and Hutu masses were used by the elites and the Belgian trusteeship authority.

How Hutu and Tutsi masses hang between elites and Belgian colonialists

Tuesday, February 25, 2025
On February 11, 1959, Bishop André Perraudin, then Vicar Apostolic of Kabgayi, published a pastoral letter known as the “Lent letter” that was circulated in churches all over Rwanda to brainwash Rwandans.

February 11, 1959, a day the unity of Rwandans was wounded

Saturday, February 15, 2025
The Hutu masses were used as pawns to further the interests of Hutu elite and Belgian colonialists. File

How ‘Hutu masses’ were pawns in sociopolitical changes of late-colonial Rwanda

Thursday, February 13, 2025
Inyamibwa Cultural Troupe will stage a highly anticipated concert dubbed 'Inka' on Marc h 15 at Kigali Conference and Exhibition Village-courtesy
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Inyamibwa to stage ‘Igitaramo Cy’Inka’ traditional concert

Monday, February 10, 2025
Grégoire Kayibanda (center), Rwanda’s first elected president, with African and Belgian government representatives in Brussels, December 1961.(AFPGetty)

How the monarchy was replaced by Hutu-based republic

Friday, February 07, 2025
The elections and referendum, like their predecessors, were marred by violence and intimidation. PARMEHUTU supporters and officials targeted UNAR members and Tutsi populations at the local council level. The electoral process in Rwanda in 1961 shows the UN's ineffectiveness.

How the UN proved inconsistent and ineffective in Rwanda's electoral process

Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Rwandans during the independence period.

UN and Belgium’s contrasting approaches to Rwanda’s independence

Wednesday, January 15, 2025
King Baudouin of Belgium meets with Mutara III Rudahigwa in Rwanda

Beatification of Baudouin: Ndahiro asks relevant questions but fails to provide a decolonial reading of Belgian King’s responsibilities

Saturday, December 28, 2024
Rwandan King Mutara III Rudahigwa, Burundi's Prince Louis Rwagasore and Congo's Patrice Lumumba. Courtesy

Denial as devotion: A king’s legacy and the ghosts of colonial Africa

Sunday, December 22, 2024
The divide and rule politics is behind this diversion of reality whose consequences we have had to live with. Internet

How colonialists supported divisionism in Rwanda’s first multiparty politics

Friday, December 20, 2024
Christopher Trott, a British diplomat during a tour of Kigali Genocide Memorial, while learning Rwandan tragic history. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana

Rwanda’s first multiparty politics reflected divisions of late colonial period

Tuesday, December 17, 2024