„Kraalpredigt vor Heiden, sitzend mit Hut auf dem Kopfe der Häuptling J. Jumba von Tabase“ („Kraal preaching in front of the heathens, sitting with hat on the head the chief J. Jumba from Tabase”). A group of people, predominantly men, are sitting on the ground next to some huts. Most of them are wearing draperies. Four men are standing, three of them in coats and with hats. 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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