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>Belgians in Rwanda
>After a period of inertia, the Belgian administration became actively involved in Ruanda-Urundi between 1926 and 1931 under the governorship of Charles Voisin. The Belgians extended and consolidated a power structure based on indigenous institutions.
>In practice, they developed a Tutsi ruling class to formally control a mostly Hutu population through the system of chiefs and sub-chiefs under the overall rule of the two Mwami. Contemporary racial science and eugenics led Belgian administrators to believe that the Tutsi were genetically more closely related to Europeans than the Hutu superior and deserved power.
>Some scholars circulated, including John Hanning Speke, propagated the Hamitic hypothesis which held that the Tutsi were descended from "black Caucasians" who invaded Europe and were the ancestors of all the more "civilised" African peoples.
>Belgians in Rwanda
>After a period of inertia, the Belgian administration became actively involved in Ruanda-Urundi between 1926 and 1931 under the governorship of Charles Voisin. The Belgians extended and consolidated a power structure based on indigenous institutions.
>In practice, they developed a Tutsi ruling class to formally control a mostly Hutu population through the system of chiefs and sub-chiefs under the overall rule of the two Mwami. Contemporary racial science and eugenics led Belgian administrators to believe that the Tutsi were genetically more closely related to Europeans than the Hutu superior and deserved power.
>Some scholars circulated, including John Hanning Speke, propagated the Hamitic hypothesis which held that the Tutsi were descended from "black Caucasians" who invaded Europe and were the ancestors of all the more "civilised" African peoples.
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