Indigenous Ethnicities index: Twa

Home  Languages    Most spoken    By country  People   African    Asian    North American    Pacific    South American  About  Contribute  Rainforests    Mission    Introduction    Characteristics    Biodiversity    The Canopy    Forest Floor    Forest Waters    Indigenous People    Deforestation    Consequences    Saving Rainforests    Country Profiles    Works Cited  Deforestation Stats  Pictures  Books  Links  Site Map  Mongabay Sites    Travel Tips    Tropical Fish  Contact Ewe Web resources: More information from Wikipedia.org: The Twa are a pygmy people, of short stature, who were the oldest recorded inhabitants of an area in central Africa that now comprises the nations of Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. When the Hutu, a Bantu-derived people, arrived in the region, they dominated the Twa. Around the 15th century AD, the Tutsi, a Bantu people, subsequently arrived, possibly from Ethiopia, and dominated both the Twa and the Hutu. The Twa speak the same language, Kinyarwanda, as the Hutu and Tutsi. For several hundred years, the Twa have been a very small minority in the area (currently 1% in Rwanda and Burundi) and have had little political role. They are often ignored in discussions about the conflict between Hutus and Tutsis, which reached its height in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. The above includes excerpts from Wikipedia.org, the free encyclopedia:

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