The Community and Africa
A gallery of images documenting the Iona Community’s work in Africa
- George MacLeod’s visit to Malawi: his support was crucial to the ‘Iona missionaries’ (Richard Baxter archive)
- Children from Uli gather round a Relief plane which crashed, Biafra, 1969 (Graeme Brown archive)
- Joe Blair’s isolated home in Abakaliki, Nigeria (Joe Blair archive)
- ‘Iona men’ worked towards the Africanisation of Church and Mission: staff of the Henry Henderson Primary School, Blantyre Mission, Malawi, 1957 (Patsy Colvin archive)
- Worship in the chapel at Chilema, Malawi (Richard Baxter archive)
- Tom Colvin with Willie Chokani (left), Malawi, 1958 (Patsy Colvin archive)
- Richard Baxter (4th from left) with members of Zomba Presbytery, Malawi (Richard Baxter archive)
- Jim Wilkie dedicates a new village church, Zambia (Jim Wilkie archive)
- Joe Blair (front row, 5th left) with pupils of the Hope Waddell Institution, Calabar, Nigeria, 1953 (Joe Blair archive)
- John Summers (left) and Joe Blair (right) at the christening of their respective children in Nigeria (Joe Blair archive)