Cultural Notes: Traditional professions were specialized on clan and family basis.

According to Rwandan culture, adequate skills for a particular profession were meant to be acquired from the family by way of transmitting them from one generation to another in a specialized manner. It should be noted that some skills were exclusively gender oriented. Boys were trained by their fathers and uncles as the men and husbands to be. Then, girls would receive training from their mothers and aunts as the women and wives to be. The culture would require all young men and women to go through the initiation ceremonies which would pass them from the childhood to a state of qualified maturity.