"Baziya. Utabeliza. In Erwartung des Schmauses. Die Tabakspfeifen gehen den Frauen niemals aus. Der Unterhaltung fehlt es nicht an neuem Stoff" ("Baziya. Utabeliza. Awaiting the feast. The pipes are never running out. There is no lack of topics of conversation"). A group of women, wearing draperies, necklaces and headdresses, sitting on the ground. Some of them are smoking. On the right side a woman is nursing a baby. Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Blohm, born in 1884 in Keffenbrinck (Germany), was a carpenter. In 1911 he married Marie Bürger. He started his missionary work in 1911 in Unyamwezi (East Africa). After being imprisoned by the Belgians from 1916 till 1917 he returned to Germany. From 1922 till 1945 he worked as a missionary in Baziya (South Africa). He died in Baziya in 1945.
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