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Tag "- Africa" details:

tag name: - Africa

web link: -_Africa

  type: Geographic locations
references: https://bahaipedia.org/Africa
related tags: African religion
referring tags: - Middle East; Africa Campaign; Algeria; Algiers, Algeria; Angola; Basutoland; Bechuanaland; Benin; Botswana; British Cameroon; British Somaliland; British Togoland (Ghana); Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cameroon; Canary Islands, Spain; Cape Verde; Central African Republic; Chad; Chagos Archipelago; Comoros Islands; Congo, Democratic Republic of (Zaire); Congo, Republic of the; Cote d'Ivoire; Djibouti, East Africa; Egypt; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Eswatini; Ethiopia; French Cameroon; French Equatorial Africa; French Somaliland; French Togoland (Togo); French West Africa; Gabon; Gambia, The; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea Bissau; Italian Somaliland; Ivory Coast; Kenya; Liberia; Libya; Madagascar; Madeira; Malawi; Mali; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mayotte; Mediterranean Sea; Morocco; Mozambique; Namibia; Niger; Nigeria; Northern Territories Protectorate; Rhodesia; Ruanda-Urundi; Rwanda; Sao Tome and Principe; Senegal; Seychelles; Sierra Leone; Somalia; South Africa; Spanish Sahara; St. Helena; Sudan; Swaziland; Tanzania; Togo; Tunisia; Uganda; Western Sahara; Zambia; Zimbabwe

"- Africa" appears in:

1.   from the main catalog (24 results)

  1. Lin Poyer. A Leaf of Honey and the Proverbs of the Rainforest, by Joseph Shepperd: Review (1989).
  2. Bahá'í International Community. Advocates for African Food Security: Lessening the Burden for Women (1991). — A joint statement to the 35th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, Agend...
  3. Hooper Dunbar. Africa (1984). — Stories of Dunbar's travels through Africa, its unique energy, and its place in the Baha'i Faith.
  4. Universal House of Justice Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, comp. African Culture, Traditional, Aspects of (1998). — Challenges and opportunities in the African continent; eliminating prejudices; dance and music; alco...
  5. Universal House of Justice. African religions; miracles; strange phenomena (1996). — Five questions: the religion of Santeria; relationship to Sabaeanism; Yoruba-based new world religio...
  6. Layli Maparyan. Africanity, Womanism, and Constructive Resilience: Some Reflections (2020). — The meanings of the metaphor "pupil of the eye;" experiences of growing up African-American in the W...
  7. Graham Hassall. Jonah Winters, ed. Bahá'í Communities by Country: Research Notes (2000). — Brief notes on the history of Baha'i activities and the dates of NSA formation in Africa, China, Aus...
  8. Graham Hassall. Bahá'í country notes: Africa (1999).
  9. Anthony Lee. Bahá'í Faith in Africa, The: Establishing a New Religious Movement, 1952-1962 (2011). — African presence in early Babi and Baha'i history; Baha'i response to crises in Middle East and West...
  10. Derik Smith. Centering the "Pupil of the Eye": Blackness, Modernity, and the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh (2019). — The "pupil of the eye" metaphor is a deeply consequential, distinguishing feature of the transformat...
  11. Greg Watson. "Come Back, Africa: First commercial film mentioning the Bahá'í Faith (2013). — Context of a 1959 African documentary/drama film in which the Baha'i Faith is discussed.
  12. Violette Nakhjavani. Great Safari of Hand of the Cause Rúhíyyih Khánum, The (1970). — A diary of Ruhiyyih Khanum's travels through Africa. Serialized in Baha'i News in 26 issues, from 19...
  13. Harry Liedtke. Guardian's Wartime Travels, The (2016). — Brief chronology of world events 1938-1940 juxtaposed with Shoghi Effendi's travels in 1940, when he...
  14. Roshan Danesh. Journey Motif in the Bahá'í Faith, The: From Doubt to Certitude (2012). — The process of individual spiritual growth lies at the heart of human purpose. Baha’u’llah speak...
  15. Margaret Pemberton-Pigott and Crispin Pemberton-Pigott. Monotheistic Religion in Africa: The Example of the Swazi People (2005). — Similarities between the Baha'i Faith and the ancient traditional beliefs of the Swazi people of Sou...
  16. Enoch Tanyi. Mysticism in African Traditional Religion and in the Bahá'í Faith: Classification of Concepts and Practices (2002). — Both African Traditional Religion and the Baha'i Faith originate from God, but at different times in...
  17. Sanem Kavrul. Paying Special Regard to Agriculture: Collective Action-Research in Africa (2021). — On Baha’i-inspired agricultural social action initiatives in Africa. Includes photo gallery of dev...
  18. Moojan Momen. Perfection and Refinement: Towards an Aesthetics of the Bab (2011). — The writings of the Bab have implications for the "plastic" arts; significance for native traditions...
  19. Báb, The and Bahá'u'lláh et al. Bonnie J. Taylor, comp. Pupil of the Eye, The: African Americans in the World Order of Bahá'u'lláh (1998). — A compilation of references in the Baha'i writings to African-Americans and those of African descent...
  20. Universal House of Justice. Ridván 1996 (Four Year Plan) - To the Followers of Bahá'u'lláh in Africa: Bahá'í Era 153 (1996). — Country-specific portion of the annual message to the Baha'is of the world: Africa.
  21. Universal House of Justice. Sabaeans and African-based Religions in the Americas, The (2012). — Overview by the Research Department about the religion of the Sabaeans [aka Sabeans], and some indig...
  22. Short Obligatory Prayer in Many Languages (1981). — Three files: Short Obligatory Prayer in 501 languages (as published in Baha'i World), and in a colle...
  23. Abdu'l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of South Africa Johannesburg, comp. That Promising Continent: Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, the Writings and Letters of Shoghi Effendi and the Letters Written on his Behalf on Africa (1998). — Updated version of "That Vast but Promising Continent," a compilation originally prepared by the UHJ...
  24. Ali Nakhjavani and Violette Nakhjavani. Three Talks in Africa (2001). — Three talks given in East London, South Africa circa August-September 2001, on personal reminiscence...

2.   from the Chronology (43 results)

  1. 1924-12-05 — Martha Root gave the first African radio broadcast about the Baha'i Faith, in Capetown....
  2. 1925-01-01 — The Spiritual Assembly of Alexandria was established, the second assembly to be formed in Africa....
  3. 1929-09-00 — Shoghi Effendi sailed from England to Cape Town and proceeded overland to Cairo. [PP180-1, SETPE1p16...
  4. 1940-07-28 — Shoghi Effendi, Rúhiyyih Khanum and Sutherland Maxwell left England for South Africa aboard the SS ...
  5. 1950-00-00 — By this year the Baha'i population of Black Africa was probably no more than 12. [BBRSM190-1]...
  6. 1950-04-21 — Shoghi Effendi announced the <a href="https://bahaipedia.org/African_Campaign_(1950-1953)">Afr...
  7. 1951-04-21 — Several National Spiritual Assemblies-Britain, Egypt, India, Iran and the United States, joined forc...
  8. 1951-08-03 — The establishment of the Faith in Uganda with the arrival of Mr. Músa Banani, his wife Sami'ih Ban...
  9. 1953-02-12 — The first Intercontinental Teaching Conference was convened by the British National Spiritual Assemb...
  10. 1953-06-06 — 'Izzatu'llah Zahra'i (Ezzat Zahrai) arrived in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and was named a Knight o
  11. 1953-09-03 — The arrival of Knight of Baha'u'llah Enayat Sohaili in Nyasaland (now known as Malawi) [<a href="...
  12. 1953-09-20 — The arrival of Knight of Baha'u'llah Mr. Max Kanyerezi in Middle Congo (now called Republic of Congo...
  13. 1953-10-51 — 'Amin Battah, an Egyptian, arrived in Rio de Oro (Western Sahara) and was named a Knight of Baha'u'l
  14. 1953-12-00 — 'Abdu'l-Karim Amin Khawja became a Baha'i in Algeria, the first person to accept the Faith in that c
  15. 1954-00-10 — The arrival in Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia) of Knights of Baha'u'llah Izzat'u'llah Zahrai, ...
  16. 1954-01-04 — The arrival of Knight of Baha'u'llah Abdu'l Rahman Zarqani, in the Seychelles. [<a href="http://w...
  17. 1954-01-11 — John and Audrey Robarts with their two younger children, Patrick and Tina, left Toronto for their pi...
  18. 1954-01-15 — 'Abdu'l-Rahman Zarqani, from India, arrived in the Seychelles and was named a Knight of Baha'u'llah.
  19. 1954-04-00 — The arrival of future Knight of Baha'u'llah, Mr. Enoch Olinga, in British Cameroon. [<a href="ht...
  20. 1954-05-07 — Mavis Nymon and Vivian Wesson, both Americans, arrived in French Togoland and were named Knights of ...
  21. 1954-07-06 — The first Somali to become a Baha'i in Djibouti, 'Ali 'Abdu'llah, a 21-year old employee of a commer...
  22. 1954-09-06 — The first people to become Baha'is in Bechuanaland (Lesotho), Chadwick and 'Maselai (Mary) Mohapi, e...
  23. 1956-04-21 — In his message to the four African Conventions for the National Spiritual Assemblies of Central and...
  24. 1958-01-23 — The first Intercontinental Conference held at the mid-point of the Crusade convened in Kampala, Ugan...
  25. 1961-07-08 — The Custodians announced that mass conversion had begun in Ceylon, Central and East Africa, and Boli...
  26. 1962-03-01 — Aboubacar Kâ, a school teacher and the first Senegalese known to become a Baha'i, enrolled....
  27. 1963-04-20 — The number of believers in East and Central Africa numbered well over 40.000 with half of these in t...
  28. 1970-06-19 — Rúhiyyih Khanum interrupted her African teaching safari to meet with more than 2,000 youth at the N...
  29. 1971-00-00 — The 'Lake Victoria Plan', a joint venture among the National Spiritual Assemblies of Uganda, Kenya, ...
  30. 1972-12-29 — The first West African Baha'i Youth conference was held in The Gambia. The Continental Board of ...
  31. 1973-02-00 — Hand of the Cause Amatu'l-Baha Rúhiyyih Khanum and her companion Violette Nakhjavani completed thei...
  32. 1976-07-09 — An International Youth Conference was held in Ivory Coast, attended by nearly 200 Baha'is. [BW17:150...
  33. 1976-10-15 — An International Teaching Conference was held in Nairobi, Kenya, attended by 1,363 Baha'is. [BW17:81...
  34. 1977-08-12 — An International Baha'i Youth Conference was held in Enugu, Nigeria, attended by over 250 Baha'is fr...
  35. 1978-08-01 — An International Baha'i Youth Conference was held in Yaoundé, Cameroon, attended by some 380 Baha'i...
  36. 1978-12-28 — The West African Baha'i Women's Conference was held in Monrovia, Liberia with the theme, "Spiritual ...
  37. 1982-11-00 — The West African Centre for Baha'i Studies was established in Nigeria. [BW18:167; BW19:366] For a...
  38. 1985-04-05 — An International Youth Conference to support the United Nations International Youth Year was held in...
  39. 1985-08-00 — An International Youth Conference to support the United Nations International Youth Year was held in...
  40. 1988-00-00 — The Baha'i International Community became a founding member of 'Advocates for African Food Security:...
  41. 1989-00-07 — Three International Music Festivals were held in Africa. [BINS215]...
  42. 1990-00-03 — An Association for Baha'i Studies was established in Kenya....
  43. 2001-12-16 — The passing of Knight of Baha'u'llah Philip Hainsworth (b. 27 July 1919) at the age of 82 in Sevenoa...

3.   from the Chronology of Canada (1 result)

  1. 1954-01-00 — John and Audrey Robarts with their two younger children, Patrick and Tina, left Toronto for their pi...
 

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