Mackay, Sembera K.
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[On October 8, 1881, Sembera delivered a note he had composed with “a pointed piece of spear grass” as the pen and “ink manufactured from banana juice and dirt” to Alexander Murdoch Mackay requesting baptism. Mackay, a Church Missionary Society (CMS) missionary, had been Sembera’s friend and teacher since arriving in Buganda’s capital in November 1878. The note, which soon became a justification that Ugandans were ready for baptism, read as follows: “Bwana Mackay, Sembera has come with compliments and to give good news. Will you baptize him because he believes the words of Jesus Christ?”]
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