The Study of Genealogy And The Lack Of Documentation

The concept of basokuru or basogokuru is important in the Burundian society. It is possible to know the grand parents but beyond that it becomes a problem. You can try to track the origines of the parents and grand parents by where. they lived before their actual residence. My paternal grand father was born with the inauguration of the Church of Buhonga, a Catholic Church in 1902. My paternal grand father Andrea Nkundwanabake passed away in October 1992, he lived in Kayanza and owned a royal residence in Buhoro, commune of Ijenda in Rural Bujumbura, in the natural region of Mugamba where grows, potatoes, wheat, tea, peas and pumpkins.