Rwanda

Rwanda is a country in east central Africa. It was previously part of the Belgian colony Ruanda-Urundi. Rwanda became independent in July 1962.  File:Rwanda first.jpg|1962 10fr independence. File:Rwanda quinine.jpg|1970 20c quinine. File:Rwanda 1998 trees.jpg|1998 150frw trees. 
 * Its first issue was the independence issue released in July 1962, inscribed REPUBLIQUE RWANDAISE.
 * In 1964, old Ruanda-Urundi animal definitives were overprinted or surcharged.
 * By the mid-1960s, Rwanda apparently ran out local things to commemorate and mostly issued topical sets.
 * Beginning in 1976, inscriptions mostly became just RWANDA.
 * By the 1980s, the stamp program became more conservative.
 * About 1985, practicality struck once again and centime values worthless for postage were mostly eliminated.
 * In 1992, the currency name was changed to "FRW".
 * About that time, new issues slowed to a crawl with no issues released in a number of years; very few genuine issues have been recorded since.
 * Meanwhile beginning in the late-1990s, a flood of bogus topical sheetlets, souvenir sheets and FDCs began to appear: mint, CTO, imperf, etc.