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EVERY DAY LIFE IN EARLY COLONIAL RWANDA KARTONI...

Most people know Rwanda only as the site of a genocide in 1994  which has overshadowed the
country's relatively peaceful past before and after colonization by first Germany and then
Belgium. Rwanda's precolonial history fascinated many European researchers  explorers and
colonial officers  mainly because they (falsely) deemed it untainted by external influences 
relatively well organized and quite belligerent. Most sources about Rwanda's precolonial
history come from Belgian researchers  officers and administrators and from White Father
missionaries. They were published in French and English and focused on the political
establishment and its history. But there are also some less well known Polish and German
testimonies about the everyday life of ordinary Rwandans  which allow deep (though not
unbiased) insights into Rwandan family life  religious habits and customs  education 
architecture and agriculture  trade  slavery  and gender relations. In Every Day Life in Early
Colonial Rwanda these testimonies are presented for the first time in English translation. They
stem from Jan Czekanowski  a Polish researcher  nobleman and member of the Duke of
Mecklemburg's Central Africa expedition 1905-1907. Czekanowski's research was later published
in German  but he also left behind a diary (in Polish and German) with unpublished
observations. Excerpts from the memoirs of protestant missionary Ernst Johanssen and several
unpublished records from German and Belgian archives about everyday life accompany them. They
enable the reader to get an idea about how Hutu  Tutsi  Twa  Hindu and Arab traders used to
live at the advent of the twentieth century.

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