Africa Links 24 with Willie Olivier
Published on 2025-08-20 17:00:00
Situated on the banks of an oshana (seasonal water course), the name Engela has variously been said to mean ‘a wet place’, or that it is an abbreviation of the name of a trader, Engelbrecht, who died under a jackalberry tree in the area.
Two Rhenish Mission church elders, Simson Shituwa and Wilhelm Kafita, established a parish at Omafo following the expulsion of the Rhenish Mission Society from southern Angola in 1916 and requested the Finnish Mission Society to open a mission…
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