Later Career
While in Scotland in 1906, Booth became familiar with the writings of Charles Taze Russell, a prominent Christian restorationist columnist and founder of the Bible Student movement, and met with him in New York. Russell's Watch Tower Society appointed Booth as a missionary Referring to Booth and his African associate Elliott Kamwana, a 1976 Watch Tower publication noted, "they never became Bible Students or Jehovah's Christian witnesses. Their relationship with the Watch Tower Society was short and superficial." Booth's teachings included advocating for social change, which disagreed with the Watch Tower literature he distributed.
By 1910, Booth and Kamwana had no relationship with the Watch Tower Society, but their distribution of literature and activist teachings began what came to be known as the so-called Watchtower movement in central Africa, now known as "Waticitawala" or "Kitawala" (a local term for "Tower") in Congo.
Booth eventually moved back to England, where he died some years later. His daughter Emily Booth would later write of their experiences in Africa.
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