Welcome to the Information Site on Namibian Evangelists
This Web Site is dedicated to the Evangelists of Namibia – the Namibian co-workers of the
Rhenish missionaries of the 19th and 20th centuries. The Evangelists were a
special breed of people. They have actively shaped the history of Namibia
over the last 200 years. They were previously shrouded in the darkness of
history, because their contemporary companions namely the German
missionaries, who themselves liked to be in the spotlight, had kept them
hidden in their reports. But it is also due to the low level of interest
that scientific research has shown them so far.
This Web Site collects the individual life stories
of Namibian Evangelists, analyses their day-to-day strategies and describes
how they influenced the various historical phases of Namibia between 1820
and 1990. The aim of this Web Site is to give the Evangelists of Namibia a
profile, to trace their exciting portraits and thus to help to differentiate
the view of the history of Namibia.