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ILLUSTRATIONS Maps The Great Lakes Region of Africa Frontispiece I.. The Lake Kivu Rift  .. Regions of the Lake Kivu regional trade  .. Ijwi Island and neighboring islands  .. Ijwi Island, showing the distribution of Babambo and Baloho settlements  .. Ijwi at the end of the nineteenth century  .. Ijwi Island and surrounding areas  .. Rwanda prefectures  .. Western regions of Rwanda  .. Location of Rwanda and Burundi in Africa  .. Rwanda and Burundi in regional perspective  .. Rainfall in the Great Lakes region  .. Rwanda: selected cultural regions  .. Burundi: selected cultural regions  .. Patterns of genesis traditions in Burundi  .. Eighteenth-century Burundi (Ntare Rushatsi–Ntare Rugama)  .. Burundi: administrative chiefs (early s)  .. Rwanda: eighteenth-century army placements  Figures .. Havu royal genealogies  .. Political cleavages within the royal family of Ijwi at the time of Rwabugiri’s attack  .. Partial genealogy of the Ijwi royal family  .. Banyambiriri ties (Ijwi) to Abeshaza (Rwanda)  .. Structural representation of the concepts embedded in the umuganura ritual  M ix M Tables .. Classification of Rwabugiri’s external military campaigns  .. Chronology of Rwabugiri’s external military campaigns  .. Hutu membership in Rwandan clans other than the largest eighteen  .. Comparative king lists of Gisaka  .. Comparative king lists of Burundi and Rwanda  .. Comparative king lists of Buhavu and Rwanda  .. Comparative chronologies of the Rwandan king list, Ruganzu to Rwabugiri  .. Rwanda royal chronology per various authorities  M x M Illustrations ...

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