In October 1896, a squadron of „Deutsche Schutztruppe“ forces erected a camp on Mount Meru, near to the mission station that King Matunda 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, Mrio, Kalami and two others whose
names are unknown to us) and two Eastern European Leipzig Mission missionaries, Ewald Ovir and Karl Segebrock. The deaths of Ovir and Segebrock were then used as an excuse by
the “Deutsche Schutztruppe” to brutally attack the Wameru and Ilarusa people.
2021 Leipzig Mission commemorated the 125th year of the so called “Akeri killings” with an international online symposium. This publication documents the presentations.
The editor, Ravinder Salooja, is a mission theologian, pastor and church manager. Presently he works as chaplain at Tübingen university. From 2016-2022 he served as Director of
Leipzig Mission.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Ravinder Salooja: Introduction
• Gladson Jathanna: Colonization, conversion, and co-option: Postcolonial Reflections
• Konstantin Gerber: Mission - white, western, colonial? Mission in the contemporary theological discourse in Germany
• Jürgen Günther: Karl von Schwartz and the beginnings of Leipzig Mission in the German colony Deutsch-Ostafrika
• Moritz Fischer: Inevitably drawn into the machinery of war? An entanglement-analytical perspective on Leipzig missionaries, caught between their African addressees and the German colonial military“
• Emmanuel Majola: Geographical and Chronological Perspectives of Leipzig Missionaries’ Activities, Around Meru land 125 years ago
• Joseph W. Parsalaw: The Akeri Killings in 1896
• Moni Parisius: 125 years of contested memory. A Discourse Analysis of the Reception of the Killing of two Leipzig Missionaries from a Postcolonial Perspective
• Kristina Ecis: Rediscovery and reevaluation of mission understanding of the Courland Lutheran Consistory and missionary martyr Karl Segebrock
• Karolin Wetjen: Symposium Climbing High Mountains: What we have learned – A commentary
• Ravinder Salooja: Mission Justifying Colonial Violence
• List of Authors
• Conference Schedule
• E-Mail by Mari-Ann Oviir in the name of the family to Leipzig Mission