IN 2006, RWANDA REORGANIZED its administrative boundaries, merging twelve smaller provinces into five larger ones. Regional cities and towns that bore the names of the older provinces had their names changed as well. This can be confusing for visitors, especially those with an interest in Rwandan history. Books and testimonies about the genocide, for example, do not refer to “Huye” but Butare, not to “Rubavu” but Gisenyi. I’ve employed the older names throughout, while acknowledging the new ones in parentheses. On the maps, I have reversed this, listing the current names followed by “formerly…”