Hutu and Tutsi Conflict

This past week my partners and I have been researching our topic and composing our mini movie. I learned so much about the history of Rwanda while making this movie. In the 1780’s, one of the most important events that took place in Rwanda at that time was the Hutu and Tutsi conflict. Around 600 years ago before the colonization by the Germans, one of the major tribes that lived in Rwanda were the Hutu. However the Tutsi a warrior race from Ethiopia invaded their native soil and took over. The Hutu, running out of options, arranged a deal with the Tutsi to raise crops for them in return for their protection. The two groups ended up living mutually in harmony for the time being. They spoke the same language as one another and intermarried. For more information about this topic visit this great websites I found (http://orvillejenkins.com/peoples/tutsiandhutu.html). Not only did I learn about the history of Rwanda I also got to learn a little more about their culture by picking out the song for our movie. It was interesting to find how different the music they listen to in Africa is than what our interpretation of music is. The song we picked out for our mini movie is from an ethnic African tribe and it’s mostly just some drum beats and random chants but it seems to work well with our movie.