Mputa Gama, lord paramount (Nkosi) of the Njelu realm of the Wangoni, surrounded by chiefs of the Wangoni (picture taken in 1902; Mputa Gama is standing a bit right from the centre, just in front of the right edge of the new building in the background. He is wearing a white suit in European style.) Mputa's attitude to the mission was ambivalent: He was on friendly terms with Fr. Cassian, he sent one of his sons to school at Peramiho and consented to him being baptised Stefan. In 1905 he ordered Fr. Franziskus's execution, in 1906, immediately before he himself was to be executed, he asked to be baptised by Fr. Johannes.   Read more...

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