Mutambara

Mutambara is a village in Manicaland province, Zimbabwe, 16 kilometres west of Cashel, and it is the administrative centre of the Mutambara communal land. The East Central Africa Mission Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church established a mission there in 1905, on land that the government of Southern Rhodesia had set aside for the settlement of Africans. Methodist historian John Wesley Zwomunondiita Kurewa describes the area as populous, fertile and well watered by two rivers. A local man, Stephen Tiki, was appointed by the church to preach there, and American missionaries worked alongside him in building the mission.