Samba Lucala: Mission school

1928. Photographer Robert Shields. In 1913, in the Official Journal of the Tenth Session of the West Central Africa Mission Conference, Bishop Hartzell reported: “This mission is not yet one year old. Like Cadia-Ca-Ndondo, it received its first start from Hombo-A-Njinji. Here we have sixty members and probationers, of whom fifty-seven were baptized during the year. Among them are two witch-doctors. One of these witch-doctors is an old woman who… is not afraid to tell the people how she deceived them and took their money, goats, chickens, etc. It was the son of this woman who tore the great fetish Nganga Kasenda from its shrine and held it up to ridicule before the people who had come to his preaching service. He dashed the idol to the ground, giving it kicks and blows, [so] that the people might no longer believe in its power to do good or evil. This incident made a great impression on the whole community. One of the first converts gave a comfortable house to the native preacher to live in, to which he added a large room made especially to conduct the services in.” http://images.library.yale.edu/divinitycontent/dayrep/Methodist%20Episcopal%20Church.%20Angola%20Mission%20Conference%201913.pdf 98754