Ganwa
{{Short description|Ethnic group in Burundi}}
Ganwa is the name for the princely group that traditionally ruled Burundi. They formed a distinct social class that was neither Hutu nor Tutsi, although they were affiliated with the latter.{{cite book |last1=Longman |first1=Timothy |title=Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda |title-link=Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-521-19139-5}}[https://books.google.com/books?id=nrN077AEgzMC&dq=Ganwa+ethnic&pg=PA205 Civil Wars of the World: Major Conflicts Since World War II, Volume 1] page 205 They have launched several appeals to be recognized as a distinct socio-cultural grouping.{{Cite web |url=http://theafricanresource.com/country-profiles/east-africa/burundi/ |title=Identity, politics, and economics in the East African Community's most troubled member |access-date=2015-05-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150222095053/http://theafricanresource.com/country-profiles/east-africa/burundi/ |archive-date=2015-02-22 |url-status=dead }}{{cite book |first1=Christian P. |last1=Scherrer |title=Genocide and Crisis in Central Africa: Conflict Roots, Mass Violence and Regional War |year=2002 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ceFIryEHTL4C&q=ganwa+burundi&pg=PA19 |isbn=0-275-97224-0}}
Origins
Burundi's Ganwa dynasty were not from the Hima stock, as was the case for the Nyiginya dynasty of Rwanda.{{cite book|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1515014|title=On Vansina's Le Rwanda Ancien:Three commentaries|page=153}}
The White Father Bernard Zuure reported that the first king of Burundi (Rufuku, father of Ntare) was a Hutu: "Everybody here says so, and the princes themselves told me they do not descend from a Tutsi". The Ganwa kings of Burundi did not like to be called Tutsi because the Tutsi were associated with the Hima, who were despised.{{cite book|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/africa/article/abs/croyances-et-pratiques-religieuses-des-barundi-by-r-p-b-zuure-des-peres-blancs-206s-bibliotheque-congo-lessorial-sa-bruxelles-1929/85826E936D2C091689F2B452AC7FD798#|title=Croyances et Pratiques Religieuses des Barundi}}{{cite book|url=https://repository.uantwerpen.be/desktop/irua|title=Us” and “them”: reciprocal perceptions and interactions between amoko in contemporary Burundi}}
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