The Two Traditions in Time Perspective
The first section discussed the differences in the forms of the two genesis traditions. The second discussed differences in the areas of residence, the histories, and the contacts with others…
The Traditions as Historical Documents
The previous two sections have stressed the considerable differences in these two traditions. They appear mutually exclusive in content and narrative form, as well as in their distribution: those who…
The Social and Historical Characteristics of the Two Clans on Ijwi
The previous section examined the content of each of the two traditions for its consistency and historical plausibility. Their differences can be explained in part by the fact that the…
The Two Traditions
The more complete, comprehensive, and geographically widespread tradition is that recounted primarily by informants of the Babambo tradition relates that at a hill called Nyabihunge, near the southern end of…
Dual Genesis Traditions on Ijwi Island
Genesis traditions have longbeen important to historians of Africa, but recently interest in these forms of oral data has intensified with the development of analytic tools ultimately derived from structural…
Lake Kivu Regional Trade In The Nineteenth Century
The debate on the relation of trade and markets in West Africa has only belatedly been taken up in East African historiography. For the most part this debate has focused…
Recent Historical Research in The Area of Lake Kivu
Rwanda and Zaïre The Rwandan Revolution of 1959–62 marked an important watershed not only for the history of the country but also for its historiography. Within Rwandan historical studies these…
Bushi and the Historians
Historiographical Themes in Eastern Kivu The form in which history is presented matters. Written historiographies in eastern Kivu were originally colonial historiographies: they drew on the cultural paradigms and intellectual…
The land beyond the mists
Historiography Historiography is an essential starting point for understanding “how it is we understand understandings not our own,” as Geertz phrases it. The first section of this collection…
The Court’s Growing Alliance with the Germans
The visit of the Duke of Mecklenburg symbolized rising German interest in Rwanda and marked a turning point in relations between the Court and the Germans. Since the establishment of…
The Missionaries as Mediators to Court Confrontation
As Musinga consolidated his hold on power, the threatened notables sought to protect themselves by improving their own relations with the missionaries. The Fathers suddenly found notables were willing to…
The Court, the Germans, and the Missionaries
Faced with further trouble with the Fathers in the next months, Musinga again made use of Kandt and von Grawert. When the Fathers wanted to cut timber in the forest…
Musinga and the White Fathers
This attempt at better relations foundered on the excessive demands and tactless behavior of the Fathers. Musinga feared the power they came to exercise through the massive wood-transporting operation, andhe…
Musinga and His Mother
Although the shadow of Rwabugiri must have loomed over Musinga's early years, his development was far more closely guided by Kanjogera. She had had only one other child, a son…
Musinga’s Coming of Age 1905-1913
Ahaje ubwanwa haba hanze ubwana. When Kabare won supreme influence at Court in late 1904, Musinga was a young man of twenty or twenty-one. He had already taken several wives…