[3] The missionaries hoped that freed slaves could bridge the gap between the Europeans and local culture, but this was not always the case.

Often the freed slaves had forgotten their native language and lost their ties to their families, or had become urbanized in Zanzibar and did not adapt well to village life.

This was not the case with Majaliwa, who quickly learned the local customs and earned the respect of the Yao and Makonde people and their leaders.

[3] In June 1887 an English missionary reopened the station in Chitangali with Harry Mnubi, a former slave and teacher who had been educated in England around the same time as Majaliwa.

His elder son returned to Kiungani and committed to a missionary life on Advent Sunday (27 November) 1887.

[8] The Nakaam made most of his relatives Christians, helped run the mission, and discouraged the spread of Islam in the region.

[7] Majaliwa was forced to improvise, but with the help of the chief's sons built up school attendance to 25–30 children.

He visited the people of the Makonde Plateau, where one of the chiefs promised to send his sons and other children to school at Chitangali.

Through the friends he had made while in England he obtained the money needed for teaching materials, baptismal gifts and school prizes, so his station was as well supplied as those run by European priests.

[1] By 1893 the influence of the station at Chitangali extended to a wide surrounding region, and Majaliwa was the leading priest in the Ruvuma district.

[7] In 1893 Yohanna Abdallah, the Nakaam's son, stood in for Majaliwa while he was attending the synod in Zanzibar.

[12] Majaliwa lived on in Zanzibar in an uneasy relationship with the mission, and several times was suspended from his duties.

[1] Cecil Majaliwa and Petro Limo helped Percy L. Jones-Bateman and Herbert W. Woodward in their revision of the British and Foreign Bible Society's Kiunguja Swahili translation of the New Testament, published by the Mission Press at Zanzibar.

[13] Majaliwa once said of the disputes between the Christian denominations, "You argue and talk and we have to listen, but when you have gone we shall remember that for all of us Africans the difference is the darkness out of which we came and the light in which we are.

However, Majaliwa's grandson John Ramadhani became a bishop 1980 and the third African Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Tanzania in 1984.