Harry JohnsonThe Reverend Harry Johnson, author of Night and Morning in Dark Africa, lived an extraordinary life.Born in December 1868 in Leicestershire, England, he was one of a family of ten, six sons and four daughters.After studying at Cheshunt College, he wa ordained in April 1896.His strong desire to follow in the footsteps of the London Missionary Society missionary, David Livingstone, in Central Africa saw him join the LMS.He left England in May 1896 and travelled to Africa where he joined the Tanganyika Mission of the LMS.He initially worked at Kawimbe and then transferred to Kambole, where he established a mission station on the southern shores of Lake Tanganyika, Central Africa, in present day Zambia.There he built a bungalow, constructed with handmade bricks, reinforced with straw and baked in the African sun. He married Minnie A. Allen, one of a family of ten children, four sons and six daughters.in August 1897, after she had travelled out from England to Africa by herself to join himat Zomba, near Blantyre in present day Malawi, but at that time, part of the British Central Africa Protectorate. Read More Read Less