Fishermen's village, Ipole, Unyamwezi, Tanzania, 1933

"Fischerdorf in Isanga (bei Iswangala, Aussenstation von Ipole) am Ugala. Man sieht die provisorischen Grashütten, im Vordergrund die Dorftrommel" ("Fishermen's village in Isanga (near Iswangala, Ipole's outstation) by the Ugala [river]. The provisional huts made of grass can be seen, in the foreground the village drum"). Several grass huts among trees. On the left a boy. The drum is hanging on the branch of a tree. 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).