Crown Prince Louis Rwagasore Hoodie

Crown Prince Louis Rwagasore (10 January 1932 – 13 October 1961) is Burundi's national and independence hero. He was a Burundi nationalist and prime minister. Prince Louis was the son of Mwami (King) Mwambutsa IV and his first wife, Thérèse Kayonga. He attended Groupe Scolaire d'Astrida (now Groupe Scolaire Officiel de Butare) in Rwanda. He briefly attended university in Belgium, but left to spearhead his country's anti-colonial movement. He founded a series of African cooperatives to encourage economic independence, but these were quickly banned by Belgium in 1958. That same year, the prince established a nationalist political movement, Union for National Progress (UPRONA). Believing that the role of the royal family should transc...