School inspector Joseph Nshiga with his family, Tanzania, ca.1927-1939

"Joseph Nshiga und Familie (Schulinspektor in Hochsafwa) Th. Tietzen." ("Joseph Nshiga and family (school inspector in Upper Safwa) Th. Tietzen."). In the background a grass-roofed rectangular house with a porch in the foreground the African family: the man, wearing a suit, is seated on a chair holding a book in his left hand. A smaller girl stands in front of him between his knees. The woman, wearing a dress, bangles and a necklace, is seated on a stool beside him holding a small child on her lap. Another girl, wearing a patterned cloth and bangles, stands beside the mother. Theodor Tietzen (1893-1973) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Having married Hildegard Marie Lenz in 1921 and served in South Africa (West) from 1922 to 1927, he moved to East Africa, where he served in Mbozi till 1929 and in Utengule till 1939. In the 1950s he returned to South Africa.