Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is highly elevated, giving it the soubriquet "land of a thousand hills", with its geography dominated by mountains in the west and savanna to the southeast, with numerous lakes throughout the country. The climate is temperate to subtropical, with two rainy seasons and two dry seasons each year. It is the most densely populated mainland African country; among countries larger than 10,000 km2, it is the fifth-most densely populated country in the world. Its capital and largest city is Kigali.
The Bibliothèque nationale de France is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as Richelieu and François-Mitterrand. It is the national repository of all that is published in France. Some of its extensive collections, including books and manuscripts but also precious objects and artworks, are on display at the BnF Museum on the Richelieu site.
The National Library of Mali is located in Bamako, Mali.
The National Library of Benin is the legal deposit library for Benin. Originally chartered in November 1975 and located in Ouidah, the library moved to a purpose built unit in the Ouando neighbourhood of Porto-Novo during the 1980s.
The Bibliothèque nationale du Burkina Faso is the legal deposit and copyright library for Burkina Faso. It was established on November 6, 1996.
There are several libraries in Burundi. The National Library and archives is situated in Bujumbura. The University of Burundi library opened in 1981, and was formally dedicated in 1985. It had about 150,000 volumes in the early 1990s.
The National Library of Madagascar is the national library of Madagascar. It was established in 1961 and it is located in Antananarivo.
The National Library of Cameroon is the national library of Cameroon. It was established in 1966 and it is located in Yaoundé.
The National Library of Togo is the national library of Togo and is located in the capital, Lomé.
The Guinea National Library is the national library of Guinea, located in the capital city of Conakry.
The Bibliothèque Nationale de Mauritanie is located in Nouakchott, Mauritania in the building of the National Museum of Mauritania. The library has a collection of 10,000 volumes and employs 41 staff members.
The National Library of Senegal is located in Dakar, Senegal.
The National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco is located in Rabat, Morocco, with a branch in Tetouan. The former Bibliothèque Générale was created in 1924. In 2003, it was renamed the "Bibliothèque nationale du Royaume du Maroc."
National Library of the Democratic Republic of Congo is located in Kinshasa and was established in 1974 as an office within Ministry of Culture and Arts. In 1989, it became autonomous under presidential order.
The Polish Library in Paris is a Polish cultural centre of national importance and is closely associated both with the historic Great Emigration of the Polish élite to Paris in the 19th-century and the formation in 1832 of the Literary Society, later the Historical and Literary Society. The Library was founded in 1838 by Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz and Karol Sienkiewicz, among others. Its first task was to safeguard all surviving books, documents, archives and treasures of national significance. It has become a historical and documentary resource open for the use of Poles and other researchers and visitors. The Library houses three museums related to significant Polish artists: the Salon Frédéric Chopin, the Adam Mickiewicz Museum and the Bolesław Biegas Art collection. UNESCO's Memory of the World Register rates it as an institution unique of its kind.
Rank comparison of non-commissioned officers and enlisted personnel for air forces of African states.
The African Library was an African Studies research library in Brussels, Belgium, originally founded in 1885 as the Bibliothèque Coloniale. It was initially established by Leopold II of Belgium as part of his efforts for the colonization of the Congo and the establishment of the Congo Free State. The library was transferred to the Ministry of the Colonies in 1908, when the Congo Free State became the Belgian Congo. In 1962, when Belgium ceased to be a colonial power, responsibility for the library passed to the Foreign Ministry. The library's holdings included material not only on Africa, but also on European colonisation in Asia and Latin America.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kigali, Rwanda.
