1871 Oilambo, Oukwanyama, Angola — died 30 January 1969[1]) was one of the first seven Ovambo pastors, whom the director of the Finnish Missionary Society, Matti Tarkkanen ordained into priesthood in Oniipa, Ovamboland, on 27 September 1925, with a permission granted by the Bishop of Tampere, Jaakko Gummerus.
[1] Shituwa was a local man of great influence in Oukwanyama, and many government officials in South West Africa consulted him on a number of occasions.
This Samson did not have his power in his hair or his muscles, but in his heart, in which God dwelled.”[4] When the Germans had to leave their missions in Angola as the result of World War I, Shituwa moved to South West Africa.
[7] In the late 1950s, Shituwa was still alive, and “despite his advanced age he had remained surprisingly active and still had a burning desire to serve the cause of the Gospel,” wrote Elias Pentti of him in 1958.
[8] Shituwa was married three times, first to Katrina kaShikongo, then to Hulde yaAmiti, who died in 1921, and lastly to Miriam gaHamunyela in 1921.