"Baziya. Utabeliza. Für die Erwachsenen ist ein Ochse geschlachtet. Der Häuptling hatte den Mann bestimmt, der ihn geben sollte. Der Dorfschulze verteilt das Fleisch an die Gruppen, das sind Mahlgemeinschaften" ("Baziya. Utabeliza. An ox is slaughtered for the adults. The chief had appointed the man who should give him. The mayor is distributing the meat to the groups, these are eating groups"). A man kneeling beside a slaughtered ox. Behind two men standing. In the background a hut, an animal and a bale of grass or straw. 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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