RWANDA (Country)
TITLE:  Mwami AREA:  26,340 km2 RELIGION:  Roman Catholic
LOCATION:  Africa POPULATION:  8,000,000 DYNASTY:  Abanyiginya Clan
CAPITAL:  Kigali     
     
PRESENT RULER:  HM Mwami KIGELI V Jean Baptiste Ndahindurwa, Mwami of Rwanda (1959/1962), Head of the Royal Family of Rwanda (1962/-)
born 29th June 1936 at Kamembe in south west  Rwanda, educated at Groupe Scolaire d'Astrida in Rwanda, studied administration at the Government School in Nyangezi, Zaire, worked with the Belgian administration from 1956 to 1958 in the Astrida Territory, and then in 1959 in Bufundu in Gikongoro, exiled by the Belgian government in 1961, granted political asylum ny the U.S. and he has lived in Washington since 1992, established The King Kigeli V Foundation and is active in relief efforts in Rwanda, though he has not actively pushed for restoration of the monarchy, unmarried.
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: A kingdom based at Nyanza, in Butare Province. Rulers were...
  • Mwami NDAHIRO I Riyange
  • Mwami NDOBA (son)
  • Mwami SAMEMBE (son)
  • Mwami NSORO Samirkondo (son)
  • Mwami RUGANZU I Bwimba (son)
  • Mwami CYILIMA I Rugwe (brother)
  • Mwami KIGELI I Mukobanya (son)
  • Mwami MIBAMBWE I (brother)
  • Mwami YUHI I Gahima (son)
  • Mwami NDAHIRO II Gaamatare (son)
  • Mwami RUGANZU II Ndoori
  • Mwami MUTARA I Seemagushi (son)
  • Mwami KIGELI II Nyamukeshera (son)
  • Mwami MIBAMBWE II Gisamura (son)
  • Mwami YUHI II Mazimpaka (son)
  • Mwami KAREMEERA I Rwaaka (son)
  • Mwami CYILIMA II Rujugira (brother)
  • Mwami KIGELI III Ndabarasa -/1792
  • Mwami MIBAMBWE III Seentaabyo (son) 1792/1797
  • Mwami YUHI III Gahindiro (son) 1797/1830
  • Mwami MUTARA II Rwoogera (son) 1830/1860
  • Mwami KIGELI IV Rwabugiri (son) 1860/1895, 25th Mwami of Rwanda, married (amongst others) Kanjogera (later regent, qv) and had issue. He died November 1895.
    • Mwami YUHI IV Musinga (ex Kanyogera) (qv)
    • Mwami MIBAMBWE IV Rutarindwa (qv)
    • Prince Munana
  • Mwami MIBAMBWE IV Rutarindwa (son) 1895/1896, died 1896.
  • Mwami KABARE 1896/1916 (Regent), brother of Kanjogera and Mbanzabigwi.
  • Umugabezaki Kanjogera [Nyirayuhi V] 1896/1916 (Regent)
  • Mwami RUHINANKIKO 1896/1916 (Regent)
  • Mwami NDUNGUTSE 1911/1912 (in rebellion)
  • Mwami YUHI IV Musinga 1896/1931, born 1883, married (a), (amongst others) Umugabezaki Kankazi [Nyiaramavugo III], Regent in 1931, daughter of Mbanzabigyi, brother of Kanyogera, married (b), Mukashema, and had issue. He died 25th December 1944 in Moba.
    • HM Mwami MUTARA III Rudahigwa (qv)
    • HM Mwami KIGELI V Ndahindurwa (by Mukashema) (qv)
    • Princess Musheshambugu fl.1930
    • Prince Munonozi
    • Prince Rudacyahwa
    • Prince Rwigemera
    • Prince Ruzibiza
    • Prince Subika
    • Prince Ruzindana
  • HM Mwami MUTARA III Charles Léon Pierre Rudahigwa 1931/1959, born March 1913, baptized 1941, married 1stly. 15th October 1933 (div.1941) Nyiramakomali of the Abgesera Clan, married 2ndly, 13th January 1942, HM Queen Rosalie Gicanda, born about 1914, murdered by rebels 21st April 1994 in Butare with six relatives, buried at the Rukali Royal Palace in Nyanza; and had issue. He died 25th July 1959 in Bujumbura, buried at the Rukali Royal Palace in Nyanza.
  • HM Mwami KIGELI V Jean Baptiste Ndahindurwa (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
  • Prince Etienne Rwigemera
  • Gerard Rwigemera, brother of Florida Uwera, born 1937 in Mutandi.
 
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