HM King Yuhi VI of Rwanda at home in Manchester Photo: The Times, UK
“An intimate formal high table dinner with fine wines and champagne” will be held next month “honouring the maiden Asian tour of HM King Yuhi VI of Rwanda”. Sai Kung’s Peter J. Mann will be one of the dignitaries presiding. The event will be staged by the Royal Commonwealth Society (quoted above) where Mr Mann is Vice President. People planning to attend the high table dinner at the Hong Kong Club on 12 February are warned that they must conform to the strict dress code: “white tie with medals and decorations”.
Emmanuel Bushayija, 64, is the claimant to the historical Kingdom of Rwanda, which was abolished in 1961. He was proclaimed the ceremonial successor to the royal title (Mwami) in 2017 under the reign name Yuhi VI. He succeeded his late uncle King Kigeli V and is a grandson of King Yuhi V. He is a former Pepsi salesman in Uganda, who also lived in Kenya, working in the tourism industry, before returning to Rwanda in July 1994. He then moved to the United Kingdom six years later. He currently lives in social housing in Sale, Manchester, UK, with his wife Lillian. They have two sons and a daughter.
One of the worst genocides in history occurred over a hundred days in 1994 in Rwanda. Hutu militias, egged on by the then Hutu-led government, massacred 500,000 to 660,000 Tutsis, scholars estimate. Victims were murdered by neighbours; up to 500,000 women were raped. At the time of the genocide, Yuhi was working in Kenyan tourism.
Sai Kung’s Peter Mann has been honoured at Windsor Castle for his Royal Commonwealth Society work — formerly he was president — by the then Prince Charles who presented him with an MBE, which doubtlessly Mr Mann will wear with his white tie at the “intimate formal high table dinner”.
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