Kalle Kananoja Finnish missionaries played a leading role in the development of healthcare in today’s northern Namibia until the independence…

Heini Hakosalo This chapter discusses the Onandjokwe Hospital – its facilities, equipment, personnel, patients, diseases and treatment methods – during…

Petrus Angula Mbenzi Oshiwambo is a Bantu language which belongs to the larger Niger-Congo phylum. According to S. Shifidi, Oshiwambo…

Kati Kemppainen Until World War I, the monopoly of the mission work in Namibia (then German South West Africa) was…

Saara Kuoppala When the first Finnish missionaries arrived in South West Africa (SWA), now known as Namibia, in 1870, the…

Marjo Kaartinen Martti Rautanen (1845–1926) remains a well-known figure in Finnish history. As one of the first group of missionaries…

Harri Siiskonen On a world-wide scale, Africa is the least-known continent in demographic terms. The population size of sub-Saharan Africa…

Raita Merivirta In October 1929, the Finnish missionary magazine for children, Lasten lähetyslehti (published between 1900–1954), published an advert on…

Martti Eirola This article is a tribute to my late father, Rev. Arvo Eirola, who worked as a missionary in…