Word: lubwa
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...came to see Lenshina and be baptized. Even in the rainy season, they were coming by the hundreds. The pennies they bring her have mounted into a sizable treasury presided over by her fanatical husband Petrus, who, some say, is the power behind Lenshina. And the Presbyterian mission of Lubwa, the oldest in Northern Rhodesia, is on its last legs...
...September 1953, Lenshina Mulenga walked into the Church of Scotland's Lubwa mission, about eight miles away from Kasomo. She was there, she said, because she had recently died; she had been about to cross the river into heaven when God stopped her and told her to go back and teach her people to give up witchcraft and repent their sins. She should go to Lubwa, said the Almighty, to be taught and baptized...
...evangelist back to Kasomo with her, and the villagers began to flock to her hut. Soon she had another word from God. There were two books, He told her, one for whites and one for blacks, and the black book was the right one. Once again Lenshina appeared in Lubwa, this time to demand the use of the mission church to preach in. When the missionaries turned her down, she went back to her village with the story that the missionaries had stolen her African book and sent it off to Scotland. She began attacking the New Testament, calling...
...What are you going to do?" asks the Rev. John Eraser, 41, of Glasgow, who recently took over the Lubwa mission. "We must get out more into the field and teach the Bible. For ten years we've been too busy keeping the mission going to get out and do field work. Lenshina just stepped into a natural opportunity, I suppose...
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