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How Rwanda came to have its name - Face2Face Africa

Just six decades ago, Rwanda and Burundi were one and the same country owing to Belgian imperialism in central and eastern Africa after the so-called Scramble for Africa. But archaeological evidence suggests that the territory, which is now the country we know, has witnessed settled life since the Stone Age. At the beginning of the...

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