Qualla: Karema, Tanzania https://qualla.com/karema-tanzania en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Karema, Tanzania https://qualla.com/karema-tanzania Karema, Tanzania: Introduction https://qualla.com/karema-tanzania/ Five hundred people, newly freed from slaving caravans, founded this village together. The year was 1885 or thereabouts; the founders had been bought out of captivity by White Fathers missionaries, and they built their new homes on the east shore of Lake Tanganyika where the lake pushes against the forest. Karema is still there. So is the fortified mission house completed in 1893. And so, extraordinarily, is the steamship the Germans assembled on the lake in 1913 - now called the MV Liemba, still ferrying passengers past the village each week.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/w/v/9/karema-tanzania-wp/kwv9-karema-tanzania-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Karema, Tanzania: Crossroads of Empire https://qualla.com/karema-tanzania/ Karema sat at an unfortunate intersection. Lake Tanganyika formed the eastern edge of the Congo basin, and by the 1870s the slave and ivory trader Tippu Tip had built a private empire along the upper Congo to the west, funneling his goods toward Zanzibar on the Indian Ocean coast...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/w/v/9/karema-tanzania-wp/kwv9-karema-tanzania-the-fort-that-changed-hands.mp3 0:06 3 full Karema, Tanzania: The Fathers and the Freed https://qualla.com/karema-tanzania/ Rather than hand the fort over, Leopold offered it to the White Fathers, the missionary society founded by the French archbishop Charles Lavigerie. Lavigerie accepted. His missionaries rebuilt Karema not as a colonial outpost but as a village of refuge, settling it with five hund...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/w/v/9/karema-tanzania-wp/kwv9-karema-tanzania-the-fathers-and-the-freed.mp3 0:06 4 full Karema, Tanzania: The Lake and Its Steamships https://qualla.com/karema-tanzania/ Lake Tanganyika is 673 kilometers long - the longest freshwater lake in the world - and for more than a century the only reliable way to move along it has been by boat. In 1913 German engineers shipped a 1,300-ton steamer to East Africa in pieces, hauled it overland through fores...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/w/v/9/karema-tanzania-wp/kwv9-karema-tanzania-the-lake-and-its-steamships.mp3 0:06 5 full Karema, Tanzania: What Remains https://qualla.com/karema-tanzania/ Today Karema is a fishing village. The mission continues, quieter now - the diocese moved its headquarters to Sumbawanga in 1969, and the big ecclesiastical energy that once made Karema a junior seminary has diffused. But the 1893 mission house still stands. Adrien Atiman is buri...

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