Haufiku Paulus Hamutenya (born c. 1884, Oukwanyama, Angola — died 12 September 1932[1]) was one of the first seven Ovambos to be ordained a pastor in Oniipa, Ovamboland, in 1925 by the director of the Finnish Missionary Society, Matti Tarkkanen.
He seems to have come to contact with Christianity through the Rhenish Mission's work in Ondjiva in present-day Angola, and in the aftermath of World War I, when the Germans were told to leave Angola, Hamutenya with many other Ovakwanyama people emigrated to South West Africa.
[4] After the ordination, Hamutenya returned to Oukwanyama and worked in Edundja during 1935–29,[1] but when Edundja became crowded with more émigrés from Angola, he founded a new place for the Oukwanyama people in the woods of eastern Oukwanyma, 60 km east of Engela, in an area into which his tribesmen had begun to move, especially from Angola.
The South West African government put Hamutenya in charge of Eastern Oukwanyama.
[5] In 1936, Eenhana became a mission station of the Finnish Missionary Society, as nurse Linda Helenius moved there and started a clinic.