Missionary Newspapers in Africa
A MONTHLY newspaper has made its appearance at Majam on Mt. Kilimanjaro, in German East Africa. It is called Mbuya ya vanda vuu, which may be interpreted "Friend of the Black Folk." The language is a little mixed, as the articles are some in one and some in another dialect of the Chagga tribes. Of course none but missionaries would plan and publish it. They are missionaries of the Leipzig Society. Another African missionary newspaper is one just established by the Church Missionary Society's mission at Cairo. It is called Orient and Occident, and is printed in Arabic and English. As the Arabic reads from right to left, the two languages naturally have their front pages at opposite ends of the paper, and meet about the middle of it.