HIS395H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: White Fathers, Hamites, Common Purpose
Document Summary
Regional context: kingdoms of the great lakes. Colonizing rwanda: the germans and the belgians. Race and ethnicity in the colonial world. Violence and state formation in the 19th century. Population growth and new land tenure system. Creation of new authorities: chief of the long grass / chief of the land. Late arrival of european colonizer - english explorer john hanning speke writes about the people of rwanda from his travels in eastern africa dating back to the 1850s, but he never actual reaches the kingdom. Count von g tzen, 1893-94, first german to enter the kingdom. During succession crisis of 1879, german officials gain control. First catholic missions, under the white fathers, established in 1900. League of nations mandate, confirmed in 1924. After world war two, rwanda and burundi separated as two u. n. trust territories, still under belgian rule. Biblical justifications for the enslavement of africans.
