ABSTRACT
The White Sisters arrived in Rwanda in 1909, having been active in the less ideologically charged Burundi mission since 1906. If the mission in Burundi struggled to achieve its aims, the colonial state was even less effective. The colonial administration’s inspection report for Burundi for April and May 1938 shows a managerial attempt to regulate a process over which the mission, rather than the colonial state, had real control. The relative conservatism of Burundi’s White Fathers made the country the region’s most ambitious destination for Maus, rather than Rwanda, where the pro-Hutu radicalism of the Fathers was well established. The essence of the FULREAC recommendations was to mend the schism between education and indigenous culture in Rwanda and Burundi before it became too wide.
