Soon after I arrived in Southern Rhodesia (as was), an old ciKaranga-speaking man asked me to help him interpret his dream. Bill Rushton, our well-loved Methodist minister, later explained how this chap was always having dreams. It seems to have been largely the influence of Old Testament stories which caused this phenomenon among African Christians.

At about the same time, Alice Lenshina in Northern Rhodesia also had a dream. She was taken to Heaven and sent back as a messenger and prophet of God. The followers of her Lumpa sect grew to such numbers that she established a village, Sione (Zion), and built a huge church in the Northern Province.