Statecraft & Independence
Peerless
Ruganzu II Ndoli
c. 1510 – 1543
Came back from eleven years in exile and rebuilt the Rwandan kingdom
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Why they are here
He spent eleven years exiled in Karagwe while foreigners held his country, returned in 1510, and reconstituted the kingdom that every later Rwandan state was built on.
Ruganzu II Ndoli was Mwami of the Kingdom of Rwanda from 1510 until his death in 1543.
He had spent eleven years in exile in the kingdom of Karagwe, hidden as a fugitive before he got there by the poetess Nyirarumaga, who later became his adoptive mother and queen mother. He returned in 1510 to drive out the foreign powers occupying the country and rebuild the kingdom, and the Nyiginya state that followed traces to his reign.
He had spent eleven years in exile in the kingdom of Karagwe, hidden as a fugitive before he got there by the poetess Nyirarumaga, who later became his adoptive mother and queen mother. He returned in 1510 to drive out the foreign powers occupying the country and rebuild the kingdom, and the Nyiginya state that followed traces to his reign.
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