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Light Shines In Bakubaland, The - Part Two

Reel Number: 220854-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1941

Country: Africa,Belgian Congo

Location: South,Western Belgian Congo

TC Begins: 17:07:50

TC Ends: 17:18:00

Duration: 00:10:10

The Light Shines in Bakubaland - An Epic of the Mission Field Missionary at desk with Africans sitting on floor. Woman with scarifications coiffing other - elaborate African hairstyle. Tribal ceremony - women, men and children dancing and singing. White man sets off in canoe with Bakuba tribe escort. Through hills on litter. Audience with King Lukenga “most powerful African monarch in all of Congo” (same king as in “How an African tribe is Ruled Under Colonial Government”) - King Lukenga is lying down & being fanned during audience. 17:10:55 Building mission station - African men hack trees from jungle whilst missionary gives orders. Missionary with wife sitting under tent. Missionaries give medicine to sick & tends wounds; wife teaches reading to children in outdoors class. Man drumming. White man preaches outdoors. African Christian convert in audience with king - King tests his faith by trying to tempt him. 17:15:40 Bakubas clearing jungle to build road under missionary’s supervision. Missionary on motorbike. Automobile on mud road; car crossing river on raft; 17:16:52 Mission hospital with African doctor treating sick - looking in microscope - giving injection - child reluctantly gulps medicine. colonialism

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