Yuhi III Mazimpaka

He is remembered as having been an exceptionally handsome young king. He was a highly intelligent and creative man. He is said to have been a painter with words (umusizi)/poet and a prophet. He revealed from his dreams the coming of a pale race of people in many years after his death that would lead to the downfall of his kingdom.

King Yuhi III commissioned a construction of a three storeyed house made of tree trunks, reeds and grass straws at a place known as Kamonyi.

It is thought to have been the first storeyed house ever built in Rwanda.

He suffered occasional mental illness due to his combination of intensive meditations/envisioning and the daily running of the Kingdom.

He died from a leg injury which he sustained from an attempt to dive from a high rock into a lake where he had gone to swim.