From the few hundred meters, the dusty village of Samunge with dilapidated infrastructure, but home to a magical healer, could easily have been mistaken for Africa's biggest open market or those crowd-pulling evangelical crusades for the visitor who arrives at this village in Tanzania for the first timeBehind this crowd, there are hundreds of vehicles in a queue, all waiting for passengers who have travelled thousands of kilometers to drink the miracle herbs from a tiny cup.
But, the tiny village was neither Africa’s biggest market nor an evangelical crusade by Reinhard Bonke, Billy Graham or Benny Inn. Inside this village lives a humble man turned ‘a celebrity’ in a blink of an eye, thanks to his alleged magical healing herbs revealed to him by the Almighty God in a dream.Helicopters are reportedly flying Loliondo airspace frequently in the northern tourist circuit to land at the remote Samunge village, located about 400 km from Arusha city.
Inside the choppers are wealthy or economically well-off and high social achievers from different parts of the world, all just too eager and anxious to personally meet retired Pastor Ambilikile Mwasapila of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania, who in turn serves a cup of his medicine that works wonders.
