Andende

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Andende

The Andende district of the provincial capital Lambaréné in Gabon is located on the right bank of the Ogooué across from an island that is known as the current location of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital.

The Andende district goes to an American Christian mission station founded by Dr. John Nassau , which was taken over by the Protestant Paris Mission Society in 1892 . During a trip through equatorial Africa, the Englishwoman Mary Kingsley visited the Andene mission station as a stage of her trip to Gabon.

When Albert Schweitzer arrived in Lambaréné in 1913, he first used the Andene mission station as temporary accommodation and hospital until the actual hospital was completed. The mission station consists of two brick buildings that have withstood the tropical climate for around 120 years - while all the wooden buildings of the first mission station have long since rotted away. The main building has an impressive vaulted gallery on the ground floor. The walls of the station are decorated with simple Christian motifs.

literature

Nils Ole Oermann: Albert Schweitzer: A biography (1875-1965) . CH Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-59127-3 , p. 132–33 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Mylène Rémy: Gabon in color . Travel today. Jeune Afrique, Paris 1977, ISBN 2-85258-070-5 , Lambaréné, p. 140-141 (French).
Albert Schweitzer: a biography by James Brabazon, page 239
Eunjin Park: "White" Americans in "Black" Africa . In: Studies in African American History and Culture . Routledge, New York, NY 2001, ISBN 0-8153-4027-3 (English).

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Individual evidence

^ Mary H. Kingsley: Travels in West Africa. 2004, p. 59 , accessed on February 4, 2011 (English): “(CHAPTER VI. LEMBARENE)… The amount of work M. and Mme. Jacot used to get through was, to me, amazing, and I think the Ogowé Protestant mission sadly short-handed - its missionaries not being content to follow the usual Protestant plan out in West Africa, namely, quietly sitting down and keeping house, with just a few native children indoors to do the housework, and close by a school and a little church where a service is held on Sundays. The representatives of the Mission Évangélique go to and fro throughout the district round each station on evangelizing work, among some of the most dangerous and uncivilized tribes in Africa, frequently spending a fortnight at a time away from their homes, on the waterways of a wild and dangerous country. In addition to going themselves, they send trained natives as evangelists and Bible-readers, and keep a keen eye on the trained native, which means a considerable amount of worry and strain too. The work on the stations is heavy in Ogowé districts, because when you have got a clearing made and all the buildings up, you have by no means finished with the affair, for you have to fight the Ogowé forest back, as a Dutchman fights the sea. But the main cause of work is the store, which in this exhausting climate is more than enough work for one man alone. "
^ Nils Ole Oermann: Albert Schweitzer: A Biography (1875-1965) . 2010, p. 132 .
^ Mylène Rémy: Gabon in color . 1977, Lambaréné, p. 140 (French).

[Guttenberg-1] Mary H. Kingsley: Travels in West Africa. 2004, p. 59 , accessed on February 4, 2011 (English): “(CHAPTER VI. LEMBARENE)… The amount of work M. and Mme. Jacot used to get through was, to me, amazing, and I think the Ogowé Protestant mission sadly short-handed - its missionaries not being content to follow the usual Protestant plan out in West Africa, namely, quietly sitting down and keeping house, with just a few native children indoors to do the housework, and close by a school and a little church where a service is held on Sundays. The representatives of the Mission Évangélique go to and fro throughout the district round each station on evangelizing work, among some of the most dangerous and uncivilized tribes in Africa, frequently spending a fortnight at a time away from their homes, on the waterways of a wild and dangerous country. In addition to going themselves, they send trained natives as evangelists and Bible-readers, and keep a keen eye on the trained native, which means a considerable amount of worry and strain too. The work on the stations is heavy in Ogowé districts, because when you have got a clearing made and all the buildings up, you have by no means finished with the affair, for you have to fight the Ogowé forest back, as a Dutchman fights the sea. But the main cause of work is the store, which in this exhausting climate is more than enough work for one man alone. "

[Schweitzer-2] Nils Ole Oermann: Albert Schweitzer: A Biography (1875-1965) . 2010, p. 132 .

[Gabun-3] Mylène Rémy: Gabon in color . 1977, Lambaréné, p. 140 (French).