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title: '“Lubuku”: A Secret Society with a Terrible Initiation'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Conway Taliaferro Wharton'
date: 1917-04-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Foreign Missions'
- 'Sunday Schools'
- 'Non-Christian Religions and Beliefs'
scriptures:
- 'Matthew 28'
- 'Acts 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/wharton-1917-lubuku-a-secret-society-with-a-terrible-initiation
---

# “Lubuku”: A Secret Society with a Terrible Initiation

Reports on Congo Sunday-school materials, a detailed eyewitness account of the Lubuku secret society's brutal initiation of Bakete boys, and a Bakuba-themed plan for organizing Sunday schools.

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