"Baziya. Außenstation Sigubudu. Kirchenältestin in Tembu-Land (Sahre Picane)" ("Baziya. Outstation Sigubudu. Church elder in Tembuland (Sahre Picane)"). Portrait of an old woman wearing a shawl on her shoulders and a headscarf.; 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.
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
