Women, Tabora, Unyamwezi, Tanzania, 1933

"Tazamambele, Aussenstation von Tabora. Die Frauen, die am Gottesdienst teilnahmen. Interessant sind die Haartrachten" ("Tazamambele, Tabora's outstation. The women who visited the sermon. The hairstyles are interesting"). A group of women, some have braided hair. 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).