Tuesday 22 November 2016

Huye Talking To? Week 7

Week 7 – Huye and Birthday Celebratories.

Huye, formally known as Butare which used to be the capital city of Rwanda during colonial times, is one of eight districts that make up Rwanda’s southern province. It has a total surface area of 581.5 square kilometers. It has fourteen sectors and 77 ‘cells’ with a total of 509 villages in total, with a population of roughly 314,022 inhabitants.





Small and friendly, its tree-lined streets are pleasing to the eyes. Huye also home to the first Rwandan hotel, Hotel Faucon, which also happens to be the hotel that the King of Belgium stayed in when he came to visit Rwanda, so take that Kigali and Gatsibo.




Huye has many restaurants and craft shops, a huge forest, and an ethnographic museum.
2 super important facts about Huye….




-          The NUR (National University of Rwanda) considered the oldest university in Rwanda is located in Huye. A popular and large University, NUR, founded in 1963 with three academics units and at time, had 51 students and 16 lecturers and kept on growing, by 2005 the university had 8221 students and 425 lectures.


-          The Ethnographic Museum was presented in 1989 as a gift from Belgium in commemoration of 25 years of independence. It is one of the most beautiful building with beautiful structures and the best ethnological and archaeological collection.



The first hall contains the museum shop. The second hall has geological displays including a large relief map that depicts the topography of Rwanda as something akin to a crumpled piece of paper. The middle hall exhibit items used in agriculture, hunting, animal farming, weaving, pottery and woodwork. The museum is also used as a venue where the ‘Intore’ dancers and drummers perform for special events.








On November the 11th we celebrated Tahir’s 25th birthday what would normally be a quiet celebration turned into a wonderful fun party, with an amazing cake and lots of dancing. Huye is a fairly quiet area so the team does what it can to stay entertained. Tahir describes celebrating his birthday away from home as “An odd feeling, where you’re surrounded by loved ones but also away from them, I had no idea that this time last year I would be in the heart of Africa eating banana cake dancing to Afro Beats.”  


Stay tuned for week 8...

1 comment:

  1. And yes u did it T u celebrated in the heart of Africa hh lol

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