Lubolo Country, Mbanguanga: A basket roof ready for thatching

August 31, 1909. Mbanguanga is in the Lubolo Country, Cuanza Sul. In the Official Journal of the 1910 West Central Africa Mission Conference, Robert Shields wrote: 'During the year Brothers Withey and Kipp have made trips [from Quiongua] to the Lubolo Country. Mbanguanga was chosen as a site for a native station. This place is about thirty miles from Quiongua. A school has been carried on here by native workers trained at Quiongua Mission Station. We are glad that this long neglected region is having some attention.'  Ray B. Kipp wrote: 'In August, 1909, six boys and I visited Mbanguanga, [which] can be reached by one day's march from Quiongua, and has about two hundred houses. Here one of our pupil teachers, Jacob K. Maweni, was given lodging, and began to teach and to preach, going on Saturdays and Sundays to the surrounding villages, and continuing until late in April [1910]. The story of salvation was told nearly every night, and seventeen boys attended his school.' Herbert C. Withey wrote: 'The work in the Lubollo town of Mbanguanga suffered great loss in the departure of Jacob Maweni returning to Rhodesia to join Bro. Springer. The work he did was followed up for two months by Antonio Felix and Chico Manuel, two young men from the Quiongua school, but one of these being an assistant teacher at Quiongua, and both needing to go to school themselves, they were not sent back.'  Photographer unknown. 40035