Banyarwanda
Sign in to savethumb The Banyarwanda (, plural; , singular) 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 minorities in neighboring DR Congo, Uganda and Tanzania.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.native_name
- Abanyarwanda
- Ethnic group.native_name_lang
- Ikinyarwanda
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- rwandan flag
- Ethnic group.total
- 16,044,000
- Ethnic group.regions
- Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania and the DR Congo
- Ethnic group.languages
- Kinyarwanda
- Ethnic group.religions
- Christianity, Islam and Rwandan religion
- Ethnic group.related_groups
- Other Bantu peoples
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- Migrations and colonial influence
- Recent history
- Culture
- Language and literature
- See also
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- References
thumb The Banyarwanda (, plural; , singular) 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 minorities in neighboring DR Congo, Uganda and Tanzania.
Although the ethnic make-up of Burundi is similar to that of Rwanda, Banyarwanda is a political neologism used solely in Rwanda since the 1990s in order to mitigate ethnic division within the country following the Rwandan Civil War and the 1994 Rwandan genocide.