By Molly Sundberg

This booklet presents an ethnography of a state-run civic schooling application dependent in an area local in Rwanda. In 2007, the Rwandan executive introduced a national software, known as Itorero, to coach all population approximately its imaginative and prescient of the version Rwandan citizen. this day, this excellent is pursued via distant education camps, village assemblies, and daily sorts of govt. in response to ethnographic study of the existence and workings of Itorero camps and the day-by-day govt of a neighborhood local in Kigali, this ebook asks how any such pursuit has come to impact Rwandans’ relation to the country and what it might probably let us know approximately glossy sorts of authoritarian rule.

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NURC 2009, 8; Rusagara 2009, 48–49). The government’s version is not difficult to understand, given how precolonial itorero not only serves as the model for its contemporary, material form—which targets the entire population—but also functions as a symbol for the current government’s overall romanticized image of precolonial Rwanda as equal and fair. Meanwhile, according to Mbonimana, as well as Alexis Kagame, admission to itorero worked on the basis of family heritage, where a boy inherited his place from his father (Kagame 1960, 7; Mbonimana 2011, 151).

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