Rwanda is often discussed together with Burundi and eastern DR Congo as if all three share the same history and the same problems. This regional shorthand is misleading. While these societies were ...

Fighters from the M23 rebel group have seized swathes of territory and captured two cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year - Arlette Bashizi/Reuters Rwanda has cut diplomatic ties with ...

Rwanda’s formal system of honouring national heroes, which was introduced after the liberation struggle and the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi draws from deep-rooted traditions of recognising courage ...

The repertoire of most Congolese popular painting in the 1970s involved the theme of colone belge ("Belgian colony"): an African policeman preparing to beat a prone African prisoner, while under the ...

Karega ka Karigata is the most recent known Rwandan warrior to have received Gucana Uruti, one of the most prestigious traditional military honours in pre-colonial Rwanda, loosely translated as ...