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He was born in northern Mozambique, and ordained as an Anglican priest at Likoma Cathedral in 1898.
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Yohanna Barnaba Abdallah
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After a brief stint at Zanzibar, he took up residence at the Unangu station on the east side of Lake Malawi, eventually spending most of his career there. He made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1905. Abdallah was noted as a scholar of the Greek language and of the Bible, but his chief claim to fame is his Chikala cha Wayao, a seminal study of the Yao people and Yao language.
lieutenant was translated by Meredith Sanderson and published in 1919, and republished in 1973.
