who were hutus and tutsis?
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Generally speaking, Hutus were an agricultural people who lived in large family groups. The Tutsis, also known as Watutsis, were a nomadic people who began arriving in the Great Lakes region from Ethiopia some four hundred years ago.
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['Morocco - 1912, to France.', 'Libya - 1911, to Italy.', 'Fulani Empire - 1903, to France and the United Kingdom.', 'Swaziland - 1902, to the United Kingdom.', 'Ashanti Confederacy - 1900, to the United Kingdom.', 'Burundi - 1899, to Germany.', 'Kingdom of Benin - 1897, to the United Kingdom.', 'Bunyoro - 1897, to the United Kingdom.']
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Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Gambia, Lesotho, Mauritania, Madagascar, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Swaziland.
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Grégoire Kayibanda (May 1, 1924 – December 15, 1976) was the first elected President of Rwanda. As pioneer of the Rwandese revolution, he led Rwanda's struggle for independence from Belgium, and replaced the Tutsi monarchy with a republican form of government. He asserted Hutu majority power.
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The Zulu are the largest ethnic group in South Africa with an estimated 10–12 million people living mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.
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Ndotsheni is a poor, agricultural village with a strong sense of community and a spiritual connection. Johannesburg is a corrupt, big city where it's every man for himself. Let's examine each setting from Alan Paton's 'Cry, the Beloved Country. '
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Cry, the Beloved Country. Often known throughout the novel as "umfundisi," which is a Zulu title of respect, Stephen Kumalo is highly respected as the native African pastor of St. Mark's Church in the village of Ndotsheni and also as an upstanding, moral, strong member of the native South African community.
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The history of the Nguni people is captured in their oral tradition. They were a group of people who migrated from Egypt to the Great Lakes region of sub-equatorial Central/East Africa. They then followed the eastern part of southern Africa in their southward bound.
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Kagame was born to a Tutsi family in southern Rwanda. ... Kagame joined the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which invaded Rwanda in 1990. RPF leader Fred Rwigyema died early in the war and Kagame took control. By 1993, the RPF controlled significant territory in Rwanda and a ceasefire was negotiated.
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The Heart of the Hutu-Tutsi Conflict. ... The Tutsis as cattle-herders were often in a position of economic dominance to the soil-tilling Hutus. That is not to say that all Tutsis were wealthy and all Hutus were poor, but in many areas, like Rwanda, the minority Tutsis ruled the Hutus.
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Bantu peoples are the speakers of Bantu languages, comprising several hundred indigenous ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa, spread over a vast area from Central Africa across the African Great Lakes to Southern Africa.
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uMkhonto we Sizwe (Xhosa pronunciation: [uˈmkʰonto we ˈsizwe], meaning "Spear of the Nation"; abbreviated MK) was the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), co-founded by Nelson Mandela in the wake of the Sharpeville massacre. Its mission was to fight against the South African government.
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It is still unknown who launched the attack; the RPF blamed Hutu extremists in the Rwandan government, while the government claimed that the RPF was responsible for the attack. The shooting down of the plane served as the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide, which began within a few hours.
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['Arthur Eze. ... ', 'Cletus Ibeto. ... ', 'Rochas Okoroacha. ... ', 'Tony Elumelu. ... ', 'ABC Orjiako. ... ', 'Orji Uzor Kalu. ... ', 'Cosmas Maduka. ... ', 'Pascal Dozie.']
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['Angola.', 'Botswana.', 'Burundi.', 'Comoros.', 'Eswatini.', 'Lesotho.', 'Madagascar.', 'Malawi.']
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On April 6, 1994, a plane carrying President Habyarimana, as well as Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira, was shot down. Extremist Hutus blamed Tutsi rebels for the attack, while Tutsi rebels denied it and blamed members of Habyarimana's own government.
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Despite the stereotypical variation in appearance - tall Tutsis, squat Hutus - anthropologists say they are ethnically indistinguishable. The oft- quoted difference in height is roughly the same as the difference between wealthy and poor Europeans in the last century (an average of 12cm).