Kigali capital of the kingdom was at Nyanza, in the south of the country. The city of Kigali was founded in 1907 by German administrator and explorer Richard Kandt. Rwanda and neighbouring Burundi had been assigned to Germany by the Berlin Conference of 1884, and Germany established a presence in the country in 1897 with the formation of an alliance with the king, Yuhi V Musinga. Kandt arrived in 1899, exploring Lake Kivu and searching for the source of the Nile. When Germany decided in 1907 to separate the administration of Rwanda from that of Burundi, Kandt was appointed as the
Kigali City Tower occupies the ground and lower ground floors of the commercial centre, as well as the ground floor of the car park building. This is Nakumatt's second Kigali store, the other being in the Union Trade Centre. South African clothing store Mr Price opened its first Rwandan branch in the complex in 2011, run by franchisee Deacons Kenya, while luxury coffee house Bourbon Coffee runs a cafe and outdoor seating area, one of its five outlets in the city. The third floor of the commercial center houses the Century Cinema complex. The cinema has four screens: three regular screens with 233,