Playing a game, Ipole, Unyamwezi, Tanzania, 1933

"Iwensato, Aussenstation von Ipole. Ein sehr beliebtes, über ganz Ostafrika verbreitetes Brettspiel. Im Hintergrund Br. Thygesen" ("Iwensato, Ipole's outstation. A very popular board game that is common all over East Africa. In the background br[other] Thygesen"). Two men, one of them sitting on the ground the other sitting on a small bench, playing a game. The game is is a board with 32 hollows, some of them holding small objects. In the background on the right brother Thygesen wearing a hat and sun glasses. Behind him a man. On the left a further man. In the background on the left, a house with a thatched roof. Paul Albert Theile, born in 1908 in Niesky (Germany), was a theologian and preacher. He was no missionary in Africa, but went on an educational journey to East Africa in 1933 and to South Africa in 1934. He was a mission deputy in Montmirail (France) from 1934 till 1938. In 1948 he married Susette Schmidt. After 1962 he was director of the Moravian Church in Switzerland. He died in 1995 in Birsfelden (near Basel / Switzerland).