My collection of Rwandan stamps - Pt4

Ok this is the last part here. These are all the Rwandan stamps I have. I am looking hard for all of the issues of Ruanda Urundi too. It will be good to have most of the stamps of Ruanda Urundi, Burundi and Rwanda in my African stamps album.

1981, Meat eating animals, Cerval
1981, Paintings and Frescoes of St. Benedict
1981, Intl. Year of the disabled
1981, National rural water supply year
1982, World food day
1982, Flowers
1982, Soccer players
1982, 10th Anniv. of UN Conference on human environment
1983, Scouting year

1983, Nectar sucking birds
1983, Soil erosion prevention
1983, Gorillas
1984, Local trees
1984, World communications year
1989, Medicinal plants
1989, Rural organization year
1989, Cardinal Lavigerie, Founder of the Order of White Fathers and Sisters, Death Cent.

1998, Wildlife
1998, Plants
1998, Remembrance of genocide victims





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My collection of Rwandan stamps - Pt3

1975, International womens year
1975, National Univ. of Rwanda, 10th anniv.
1975, Nature protection
1975, THEMABELGA Intl. Topical Philatelic Exhibition, Brussels, Dec. 13-21.
1976, Albert Schweitzer
1976, American Bicentennial (Paintings)
1976, 50th anniv. of the Roman Catholic Church of Rwanda
1976, 21st Olympic Games, Montreal, Canada,

1976, Centenary of first telephone call by Alexander Graham Bell, Mar. 10, 1876.
1976, American Bicentennial (Paintings) overprinted in Silver with Bicentennial Emblem and “Independence Day”
1976, 21st Olympic Games, Montreal, Canada,
1976, Apollo Soyuz space test program (Russo- American cooperation), July 1975
1976, Orchids
1976, Nature protection overprinted: “JOURNEE / MONDIALE / 1977”
1977, World telecommunications day
1977, Paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
1977, Birds of prey
1977, Apollo Soyuz space test program overprinted “in memoriam/WERNHER VON BRAUN/1912-1977
1978, 10th anniversary of Rwanda Boy Scouts.
1978, Chimpanzees
1978, Insects
1978, 11th World cup, Argentina, June 1-25, (Various Soccer Scenes and Flags)

1978, History of aviation
1979, Butterflies
1979, Trees and shrubs
1979, Basket weaving
1979, Sir Rowland Hill (1795-1879), originator of penny postage, and Stamps of Ruanda-Urundi
1980, Birds of the Nyungwe Forest
1980, Rotary Intl., 75th Anniv. (Globe, Emblems of Butare or Kigali Clubs and)
1980, 22nd Summer Olympic Games, Moscow, July 19-Aug 3
1980, Mushrooms

1980, Impressionist painters
1980, Belgian Independence Sesquicentennial: Engravings of War of Independence.
1980, Soil conservation year
1981, Flowers
1981, SOS Children’s Village: Various children
1981, Saturday Evening Post covers by Norman Rockwell




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My collection of Rwandan stamps - Pt2

1971, Paintings by Durer
1972, The national guard serving the nation
1972, Winter Olympic games, Sapporo, Japan
1972, Akagera National Park.

1972, Birds
1972, 10th Anniversary of Independence
1972, 20th Olympic games, Munich
1972, Fight against racism
1973, Insects
1973, Paintings connected with reading and book year emblem


1973, Musical instruments of central and west africa
1973, Paintings from Old Pinakothek, Munich (IBRA Emblem)
1973, African fish
1973, Africa Weeks, Brussels, Sept. 15-30, 1973. On the 30c, 1fr and 25fr the text of the over-print is horizontal
1973, Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
1973, Pres. Juv´enal Habyarimana
1974, World Cup Soccer Championship, Munich, June 13-July 7.

1974, Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), Italian electrical engineer and inventor.
1974, Paintings. INTERNABA 74 Intl. Phil. Exhib., Basel, June 7-10, and Stockholmia 74, Intl. Phil. Exhib., Stockholm, Sept. 21-29.
1974, Centenary of UPU
1975, Antelopes
1975, Flowers
1975, Centenary of Vatican I, Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church, 1869-70. Overprinted: “1975 / ANNEE / SAINTE”
1975, African birds





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My collection of Rwandan stamps - Pt1

Ive been wanting to do this post for a long time but just couldn't for some reason or the other as something or the other always came up. My collection of African stamps is very limited but stamps of African countries seem to fascinate me just as much as any of the countries I wish to have complete country collections of. These countries btw as most of you know are UK, USA, Canada and Australia other than India ofcourse. Yes, I haven't done a single post on any of my UK, Canada and Australia stamps yet. Its a mammoth task and I will soon get to that.

Back to Rwanda......The reason for this fascination is again the variety of flora, fauna, culture etc depicted on the stamps. As usual let me start with a little bit of political history. Rwanda was established as an independent republic on July 1, 1962. With Burundi prior to 1962, it had been a UN trusteeship & territory administered by Belgium.

My collection starts from the 1963 issues of the Centenary of the Red Cross with a lot of missing stamps in each set and year thereafter. Most of the stamps are mint, some CTOs too. The postally used ones are really hard to find.

1965, Abraham Lincoln death centenary
1965, Kagera National Park publicity.
1965, Cattle, ICY emblem and map of Africa
1965, John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
1965, Christmas
1966, Father Joseph Damien and lepers
1966, Visit of Pope Paul VI to the UN, New York City, Oct. 4, 1965.

1966, Flowers
1966, Opening of WHO Headquarters, Geneva
1966, National youth sports program
1966, World Soccer Cup Championship, Wembley England
1966, Mikeno Volcano and crested shrike
1966, UNESCO 20th Anniv.

1967, Snakes
1967, Paintings. Issued to publicize the work of Caritas-Rwanda, Catholic welfare organization.
1967, EXPO ’67 Emblem, Africa Place
1967, Birds
1968, Sport and mexican art
1968, Flowers

1968, African national costumes
1969, Paintings and music
1969, African headdresses
1969, 10th anniv. of independence
1969, Medicinal plants and health emblem
1969, Paintings of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

1970, Paintings of hroses
1970, African national costumes
1970, 9th World Soccer Championships for the Jules Rimet Cup, Mexico City, 5/30-6/21
1970, EXPO ’70 International Exhibition, Osaka, Japan, Mar. 15-Sept. 13.
1970, Gorillas
1970, 150th anniv. of the discovery of quinine by Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788-1842) and Joseph Bienaime Caventou (1795-1877), French pharmacologists.

1970, Apollo spaceship
1970, Portraits of Roosevelt and various orchids.
1970, Centenary of Vatican I, Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church, 1869-70.
1970, African headdresses
1971, Beethoven portraits and

The last set of stamps is from the 1971, 20th Summer Olympic Games, Munich, Aug. 26-Sept. 10, 1972 set. More stamps of later years in subsequent parts to this post.

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