Mpungu

This article is about the settlement in Namibia. For the spirits of Palo, see Nkisi.
Mpungu
Mpungu

Location in Namibia

Coordinates: 17°40′1.20″S 18°13′58.80″E / 17.6670000°S 18.2330000°E / -17.6670000; 18.2330000Coordinates: 17°40′1.20″S 18°13′58.80″E / 17.6670000°S 18.2330000°E / -17.6670000; 18.2330000
Country  Namibia
Region Kavango West
Constituency Mpungu Constituency
Time zone West Africa Time (UTC+1)
Climate BSh

Mpungu is a settlement and a former mission station of the Finnish Missionary Society in the Mpungu Constituency in the Kavango West Region in Northern Namibia. It is located ca. 40 km south-west of Nkurenkuru, in the inland, as opposed to other former Finnish mission stations, which were located along the Kavango River. Today a tarred highway from Ovamboland to Kavango connects Mpungu to other places in northern Namibia.

History of Mpungu

The mission station was founded in 1951 by Hellin Elomaa, a nurse, who also founded a small clinic there.[1]

In Mpungu, the Finnish missionaries were also in touch with the local Bushman population.[1]

Mpungu today

Today there is still a health centre in Mpungu, as well as the Himarwa Iithete Senior Secondary School.

References

  1. 1 2 Peltola, Matti (1958). Sata vuotta suomalaista lähetystyötä 1859–1959. II: Suomen Lähetysseuran Afrikan työn historia. [A hundred years of Finnish missionary work 1859–1959. II: The history of the Finnish Missionary Society in Africa]. Helsinki: Suomen Lähetysseura (The Finnish Missionary Society). p. 240.


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