Brother Thygesen playing a game with African women, Ipole, Unyamwezi, Tanzania, 1933

"Ifumbe, Aussenstation von Ipole. Br. Thygesen spielt das beliebte Brettspiel der Ostafrikaner (Frauenspiel)" ("Ifumbe, Ipole's outstation. Br[other] Thygesen is playing the board game popular with the East Africans (women's game)"). Brother Thygesen is sitting on a stool, the game is in front of him. His back is facing the photographer. Women are playing with him. People are standing around, watching the scene. 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).