Mulwewa

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Mulwewa was a mission founded by White Fathers missionaries on the west side of Lake Tanganyika, in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is at , near Uvira.

The White Fathers reached Lake Tanganyika in January 1879, and established a station at Rumonge on the east side of the lake.[1] They founded the mission of Mulwewa opposite Rumonge, on the west side of the lake, in the region of in response to an appeal from Massange.[2] The mission was founded by Father Deniaud, the Superior of the Tanganyika mission, with Fathers Moinet and Delaunay, leaving Rumonge on 25 November 1880.[3] They reached Mulwewa and founded the station on 28 November 1880.[4]

After Deniaud returned, on 1 February 1881 he sent Father Auguste Moncet to replace him at Mulwewa, where Moncet busied himself teaching youth and helping erect the mission buildings.[3] The station was on a narrow plateau that looked over the lake.[5] Mulwewa became a place of refuge for orphans redeemed from slave traders.[6] The priests did not at first build any fortifications.[7] In 1882 Léopold Louis Joubert, a former Papal Zouave, built palisades and moats around the station for protection.[8] He also trained the local people in the use of arms so that they could defend the mission against slavers.[9]

After Mulwewa, the White Fathers founded the stations of Kibanga on 11 June 1883, on 12 September 1884, Mpala on 8 July 1885 and Baudouinville on 8 May 1893.[4] The local potentate, Rumaliza, tolerated the foundation of the missions at Mulwewa and Kibanga, but prevented establishment of a station at Ujiji, at the extreme northeast of the lake.[10] The mission at Mulwewa was abandoned soon after the acquisition of the stations of Mpala and Karema in 1885.[11] In September 1886 the missionary Mathurin Guillemé visited Mulwewa, finding it in ruins.[12]

References[]

Citations

  1. ^ Institut historique belge de Rome 1982, p. 228.
  2. ^ Matheson 1963, p. 42.
  3. ^ a b Vanneste 1955, p. 626.
  4. ^ a b Makombo 1987, p. 96.
  5. ^ Cahiers Zairois 1971, p. 161.
  6. ^ Cahiers Zairois 1971, p. 162.
  7. ^ Matheson 1963, p. 43.
  8. ^ Shorter 2003.
  9. ^ Coulombe 2009, p. 212.
  10. ^ Rumaliza 1975, p. 620.
  11. ^ Shorter 2011, p. 129.
  12. ^ Vanneste 1958, p. 366.

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  • "Rumaliza". Hommes et destins: dictionnaire biographique d'outre-mer. Académie des sciences d'outre-mer. 1975. ISBN 978-2-900098-03-5. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
  • Shorter, Aylward (2003). "Joubert, Leopold Louis". Dictionary of African Christian Biography. Archived from the original on 2013-05-24. Retrieved 2013-04-10.
  • Shorter, Aylward (2011-12-01). Les Pères Blancs au temps de la conquête coloniale: Histoire des Missionnaires d'Afrique (1892-1914). KARTHALA Editions. ISBN 978-2-8111-0575-4. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
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