Kigali The first businesses were established in Kigali that year by Greek and Indian merchants, with assistance from Baganda and Swahili people. Items traded included cloth and beads. However, commercial activity was limited and there were only around 30 firms in the city by 1914. Kandt also opened government-run schools in Kigali, which began educating Tutsi students. Belgian forces took control of Rwanda and Burundi in 1916, during World War I, and were granted sovereignty by a League of Nations mandate in 1919.. In early 1917, Belgium attempted to assert direct rule on the colony, placing King Musinga under arrest and
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,