e/Joseph Dupont (bishop)

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has gloss	eng: Bishop Joseph Dupont, nicknamed Moto Moto (fire fire) by the Bemba people was a French Catholic missionary pioneer in Zambia's Northern Province (then part of North-Eastern Rhodesia) from 1885 to 1911. He persuaded the Bemba, feared by the Europeans and by neighbouring tribes, to allow him to become the first missionary into their territory around Kasama. At the time the British South Africa Company (BSAC) chartered by Britain to administer North-Eastern Rhodesia was not in control of all the territory. Origins Joseph Dupont was born in Geste, Maine et Loire, France on July 23, 1850 to a peasant family. After a short and quite successful military service, he studied to become a member of the Catholic White Fathers missionary society now called the Society of the Missionaries of Africa. He then taught at the College of Saint Louis of Carthage at Thibar in Tunisia. He was sent to Karema Mission on Lake Tanganyika in 1892.
lexicalization	eng: Joseph Dupont
instance of	(noun) someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program missionary

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