Climbing High Mountains

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>In October 1896 a squadron of Deutsche Schutztuppe forces erected a camp on Mount Mary near to the mission station that King Matundo was having built. A night battle between local people and the German forces resulted in the deaths of at least five civilians who worked for the mission station including five Chagga (Karava Mria Kalami and two others whose names are unknown to us) and two Eastern European Leipzig Mission missionaries Ewold Ovir and Karl Segetrock. The deaths of Ovir and Segebrock were then used as an excuse by the Deutsche Schutztruppe to brutally attack the Womesu and Ilarusa people</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>2021 Leipzig Mission commemorated the 125th year of the so-called Aker killings with an international online symposium. This publication documents the presentations.</span></p><p><br></p><p>This book was co-published with Leipzig Mission</p><p><br></p>