RIRUBU : “Cry now”. ( Part 1)
Did you get it ? RIRUBU. That’s Kirundi, my beautiful mother language. But it should be written like this: RIRA UBU which means cry now. One more word BURURI. And Bururi, besides that it’s a name of a province of Burundi, I don t know if it has any other meanings or its true origin.
So what the hell is this ? Do I want to teach you Kirundi? Eh ben , you need to pay for it if you want . I want to tell you a story if I can call it a story I heard during my visit in Burundi and Bururi as well. RI RU BU is BU RU RI reversed. Put BU in place of RI and u are done. From the name of a province to “Cry now” !
If you don’t know Burundi and its history, Bururi is a province in the south of Burundi, which gave birth to presidents MICOMBERO, BAGAZA, BUYOYA (BUYOYA 1,2 and 3). They ruled BURUNDI for nearly 40 years Maybe not too many for 3 presidents if you are a Togolese or Congolese but many Burundians think so. Not only they are all of them from BURURI, they are also from one commune called RUTOVU and took power by military coup d’etat. Shall I remind you that they are Tutsi ?
It’s time to sleep. No time to finish the story.
See u tomorrow for the next part.