„Elias Mzuku mit der Familie seines Bruders (E.M. in Zylinder)“ („Elias Mzuku with his brother’s family (E.M. in top hat)“). Group portrait of three men, one woman and one boy next to a hut. One man and the woman are sitting, the others are standing behind. The woman is wearing draperies and a headdress, the man left to her is wearing a coat and a hat. The two men behind are wearing suits and hats. The boy is dressed in a suit, too. 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.--Elias Mzuku, coming from Tembuland, was an Evangelist in Xentu (South Africa).
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