The aim of this paper is to make an interim report of my findings to seek the native informants who helped Fr. Crazzolara's ethnographic research in Padhola, Eastern Uganda. Though some evidences that were available at the starting point of my research suggested that one of the most famous Jopadhola, A. C. K. Oboth-Ofumbi might be the alleged, further biographical research in the field forced me to reject the hypothesis. The most likely person who might have been or have had some communication with the person wanted here is his father, the famous evangelist Semu Kole Ofumbi. He is known as the teacher being to be said to have assisted the research work of the wife of white Anglican Christian called Rampley. Further biographical research not only from the side of Padhola but also from the one of Fr. Crazzolara and Christian Mission should be planned to solve this puzzlement. The procedure of this detective work gave us to reconfirm the inexhaustible importance of biographical data that can reflect a lot of aspects of circumstances surrounding the person to consider historical events ethnographically.

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