Rwanda+Culture

Rwanda Culture

Rwandans enjoy storytelling, weaving and basketry. Skill and expressiveness displayed in basket weaving indicate a family's social status. The pygmy Twa are traditional potters.
 * History || Economics || Politics || Culture || Geography || Activities ||
 * Art**

Rwandan musical instruments include homemade xylophones, stringed instruments and drums; singing and dancing accompany ceremonies associated with birth, marriage, death, harvest and hunting.
 * Music**

__**Table**__ **Holidays and Festivals** Table created with information from
 * Holiday || Date ||
 * New Years Day || Jan 1 ||
 * Heroes Day || Feb 1 ||
 * Woman's day || March 8 ||
 * Easter Week || March or April ||
 * Genocide Memorial Day || April 7 ||
 * Labor Day || May 1 ||
 * Independence Day || July 1 ||
 * Assumption Day || Aug 15 ||
 * All Saints Day || Nov 1 ||
 * Christmas Day || Dec 25 ||

**Sports and Games** Soccer (called //football//) is Rwanda's most popular sport. Basketball and volleyball are also becoming increasingly popular.

**Typical Foods** Rwandans eat bananas, legumes, sweet potatoes, maize, cassava and potatoes. 5 cups water 5 Tb. sugar 1 cup sorghum flour* 1 cup milk Put four cups of water into a saucepan. Put the sorghum flour in a bowl mixed with one cup of cold water. Stir until the flour and water are mixed. Pour the mixture in boiled water and stir immediately so it will not become lumpy. Continue to stir until it boils again. Let boil 15 minutes. Put in sugar and milk. Serves six.
 * Sorghum Porridge**

Roman Catholic 56.5%, Protestant 26%, Adventist 11.1%, Muslim 4.6%, indigenous beliefs 0.1%, none 1.7%
 * Religion**

Kinyarwanda (official, universal Bantu vernacular), French (official), English (official), Kiswahili (Swahili, used in commercial centers)
 * Languages**

definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 70.4% male: 76.3% female: 64.7% (2003 est.)
 * Literacy**

This information from [|CIA World Factbook] and [|Compassion]

Updated April 28, 2011