Crossing the Loange: Congo Pax Service and the Journey Home – A Book Review
Journal Title: Anthropology – Open Journal - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
John M. Janzen and Larry B. Graber spent two years from 1957 to 1959 as volunteers on Congo Inland Mission (CIM) stations in the Belgian Congo. This book recounts their adventures on several mission stations, their research into Chokwe (or Cokwe) history, religion, and music in the Kamayala area, and the three month trip they took by car from the Congo to Brussels, Belgium. They tell their story largely through the letters they wrote to their parents and hundreds of photographs of people and places. The title of the book refers to the Loange River that they crossed numerous times, a river that flows south to north through the heart of the territory served by the CIM missions.
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Paul Stanley Yoder
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Crossing the Loange: Congo Pax Service and the Journey Home – A Book Review
John M. Janzen and Larry B. Graber spent two years from 1957 to 1959 as volunteers on Congo Inland Mission (CIM) stations in the Belgian Congo. This book recounts their adventures on several mission stations, their resea...