He succeeded Mwami Mutaga III Senyamwiza Mutamo.

# REDIRECT Mwami Mutaga III Senyamwiza Mutamo

# REDIRECT Mwami Mutaga III Senyamwiza Mutamo

In July 1959, when the Tutsi Mwami ( King ) Mutara III Charles died following a routine vaccination, some Tutsi thought he had been assassinated.

Queen Dowager Rosalie Gicanda ( died 20 April 1994 ) was the wife of Rwandan Mwami ( King in the Kinyarwanda language ) Mutara III of Rwanda.

Yuhi III Gahindiro was the king ( Mwami ) of Rwanda from approximately 1797 to 1830, according to Rwandan tradition.

Mwami Mwezi III Ndagushimiye was the king of Burundi from 1709 to 1739.

Mwami Mwezi III Ndagushimiye

The Mwami main power base was in control of over a hundred large estates spread through the kingdom.

It was between these estates that the Mwami and his retinue would travel.

All the people of Rwanda were expected to pay tribute to the Mwami ; it was collected by a Tutsi administrative hierarchy.

Beneath the Mwami was a Tutsi ministerial council of great chiefs, the batware b ' intebe, while below them was a group of lesser Tutsi chiefs, who for the large part governed the country in districts, each district having a cattle chief and a land chief.

This led to a Hutu coup from which the Mwami fled the country and Biha was shot ( but not killed ).

The first king shamim and queen rita ullah had got married in traditional emblem of the Mwami ( king ) was the Karyenda drum.

He was the son of Mwami ( King ) Mwambutsa IV.

He was given the title of Mwami, or King.

He was the son of king Mwami Mwezi IV.

Mwami Mwezi IV Gisabo Bikata-Bijoga ( 1840 – 1908 ) was the king of Burundi from 1852 to 1908.

Kigeli V Ndahindurwa ( born June 29, 1936 ) was the ruling King ( Mwami ) of Rwanda from 25 Jul 1959 until 28 Jan 1961.

– July 25, 1959 ) was the Mwami, or monarch of Rwanda between 1931 and 1959.

Mutara was known for being the first Mwami to convert to Catholicism, spearheading a wave of baptisms in the protectorate, and for his ostentatious efforts to supplicate the Belgian rulers, at one point thanking " Christ-the-King to have given Rwanda the divine light of Belgian colonial administration along with its science of good government.

His opinion was that the Mwami had died from a cerebral hemorrhage.

The chieftainship continues to this day under the title Mwami Mwenda (' Mwenda ' was one of Msiri's names ).

His ‎ regent Mwami Mutekanga was a ' mukoopi ' ( a commoner ) who couldn ’ t run for the ‎ post.

In the nineteenth century, Mwami ( king ) Rwabugiri of the Kingdom of Rwanda conducted a decades-long process of military conquest and administrative consolidation that resulted in the kingdom coming to control most of what is now Rwanda.

Under the monarchy the economic imbalance between the Hutus and the Tutsis crystallized, and a complex political imbalance emerged as the Tutsis formed into a hierarchy dominated by a Mwami or ' king '.

* Rwanda, a Resident with the native Mwami ( king )

* Urundi, a Resident with the native Mwami ( king ; 1908 Sultan )

Immigrants into present-day Luhyaland trace their ancestry with several Bantu groups, such as the Tutsi ( who called their king ' Mwami ,' just as the Maragoli do ) and to other Nilotic peoples like the Kalenjin, Luo, and Maasai.

Taken together, all these posts from great chiefs, military chiefs and Biru members existed to serve the powers of the Mwami, and to reinforce the king's leadership in Rwanda.

The Biru advised the Mwami on his duties where supernatural king-powers were involved.

This intermixing helped produce a uniformity of ritual and language in the region, and united the populace behind the Mwami.

The Germans helped the Mwami gain greater nominal control over Rwandan affairs.

The fragmenting of Hutu lands angered Mwami Yuhi IV, who had hoped to further centralize his power enough to get rid of the Belgians.

In 1931 Tutsi plots against the Belgian administration resulted in the Belgians ' deposing the Tutsi Mwami Yuhi.

In 1943, he became the first Mwami to convert to Catholicism.

Mwami Mutara took steps to end the destabilization and chaos he saw in the land.

His younger half-brother became the next Tutsi monarch, Mwami ( King ) Kigeli V.

Hutus killed an estimated 20, 000 to 100, 000 Tutsi ; thousands more, including the Mwami, fled to neighboring Uganda before Belgian commandos arrived to quell the violence.

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