Burial place of the Mukoma, the chief, near Msangano, Tanzania, 1931

"Nyassa. Grabstätte des alten Häuptlings Mukoma. Tietzen 1931." ("Nyasa. Burial place of the old chief Mukoma. Tietzen 1931."). Three Africans are seated in front of a small thatched building.; Mukoma is the title of the ruler in Inamwanga who perceives himself as a sacral ruler. -- 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