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Martti Rautanen
Martti Rautanen was a Finnish Lutheran missionary who worked among the Ovambo of northern Namibia from 1870 until his death in 1926. Based at Olukonda in Ondonga, where he was known as Nakambale, he translated the Bible and other texts into Oshindonga, founded the first congregations and helped make Ondonga largely Christian. He also collected plants and wrote on Ovambo customs.
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