ABSTRACT
Decolonisation for states such as Britain and France meant the loss of their existing role within the world order. In Rwanda, Rudahigwa had maintained good relations with the CMS until his death and his successor Kigeri was warmly welcomed at the Gahini mission in August 1959. Missionaries in the era of decolonisation were divided between those who were content to operate under or even within post-colonial governments, and those who were clearly unsuited for such quietism. As late as the end of the 1950s, according to Harroy, the relationship between Tutsis and Hutus gave rise to little or no political controversy in Burundi. In the early 1960s, it was still possible for a British academic to argue that the history of Oxford and Cambridge universities proved that a sound foundation of secondary schools was not needed to produce successful higher education. Western education in Rwanda was a dynamic format with an in-built tendency to necessarily unstable expansion.
