Word: urundi
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...only consolation that fell to the Belgians was the capture in Africa of two small and scenically beautiful German territories on the eastern border of the vast Belgian Congo. Thereafter, first under a League of Nations mandate and then under the U.N., Belgium continued to rule Ruanda and Urundi through a master tribe of willowy African giants named the Watutsis. The Watutsis had been for four centuries the lords of the Land of the Mountains of the Moon, and there seemed little reason why they should not continue to be so. But last week, this convenient arrangement lay in ruin...
Just where the Watutsis came from, whether from Egypt or Ethiopia, no one can say, but as soon as they made their appearance in what was to become Ruanda and Urundi, their great size (average height: 6 ft. 6 in.) froze the hearts of the tribes already living there. The pygmy Mutwas (average height: 4 ft. 6 in.) quickly became their slaves, and the industrious Muhutus (average height: average) gradually settled down into a kind of serfdom. Though only some 550,000 strong, the tall Watutsis dominated a land of 4,600,000. They dressed themselves in fine togas...
...political party. The Watutsis in turn also organized, began badgering Brussels to give them autonomy at once while they still had the Muhutus firmly under their thumb. The last thing they wanted was for Brussels to push through its new plan to set up elected parliaments in Ruanda and Urundi and turn the two territories into constitutional kingdoms...
...greatest fear is to see Nyasaland dominated by apartheid-minded whites unrestrained by the more benign rule of the Colonial Office in London. Eventually, he hopes it will be linked to Tanganyika, parts of Northern Rhodesia, and possibly Uganda and Belgium's U.N. trust territory of Ruanda-Urundi...
BISHOP ALOYSIUS BIGIRUMWANI, Apostolic Vicar of Ruanda Urundi (bordering on the Belgian Congo), is a descendant of the kings of the famed Watutsi tribe of giants. From a mountaintop mission at Nyundo, overlooking Lake Kivu and the flaring volcanoes of Nyiragongo and Nya-mulagira. tall (6 ft. 3 in.) Bishop Bigi-rumwani, 53, directs five white bishops and 471 priests, both white and Negro. Since his consecration in 1952, 20,000 converts have joined the church in his own diocese, but two-thirds of the half-million tribesmen in the territory he administers as senior bishop are still pagan...