Your story in this week’s issue, “Cattle Praise Song,” begins with a long tribute to the central role that cows used to play in Tutsi culture in Rwanda. Was this a culture you experienced as a child?

The Hutu authorities in Rwanda, Scholastique Mukasonga writes in The Barefoot Woman, portrayed the Tutsi as ‘inyenzi, cockroaches, insects it was only right to persecute and eventually exterminate’.

Most of us might be accustomed to the 1994 Rwandan genocide popularized by the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda in which the shooting down of President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane was used as a signal to ...

Kirehe (Rwanda) (AFP) – A 200-year-old Tutsi art form made with cow dung, Rwanda's imigongo painting tradition has experienced a revival in the Great Lakes nation three decades after the 1994 genocide ...

In essence, Rwandans are one people throughout history. Colonialists created divisions among them as a strategy to achieve their devious goals. In the last piece of this serialised narrative, we saw ...

In 1994, Rwanda, a country renowned for its breathtaking scenery and vibrant culture--descended into one of the most horrific episodes of human history. In just 100 days, over one million Tutsi men, ...

When Kizito Mihigo was 12 years old he fled from his home. His father, a Tutsi, had been butchered by their Hutu neighbours. It was one of hundreds of thousands of murders in the Rwandan genocide, ...

Hate speech against Tutsi communities in DR Congo is an ongoing, serious issue described as reaching alarming levels - ...

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni yesterday dismissed concerns of a conspiracy by some communities to create or revive a Hima/Tutsi empire in the region. Opening a three-day regional symposium in Kampala, ...