- 1951-00-01 — Portuguese Bahá'ís Mr António and Mrs Ema Rocha, Mrs Guedes DeMelo Rocha and Mrs D. Laura Rodriquez, the first pioneers to Angola, took up residence in Luanda.
- 1955-04-21 — The first native Mozambican Bahá'í, Festas Chambeni, took the Bahá'í Faith to Angola. [BW13:290]
- 1956-02-28 — In early 1956, Rudolfo Duna, his wife Angelica, and eleven year old daughter Julia,
early Mozambican Bahá'ís, undertook the arduous train journey from Johannesburg, South Africa
to Luanda, Angola, covering over 5,000 kilometers. Within a week after their arrival in Luanda, a community large enough to
establish a Local Spiritual Assembly was formed.
Another example of a new African believer arising was the case of Dorothy Chivunda in Zambia. When word of the
Faith reached the church Dorothy attended, it aroused the curiosity of the congregation. The
church decided to send Dorothy to investigate the claims of this new religion. Within three
weeks, she declared as a Bahá'í, promptly organizing a teaching trip to her native village in
Kawiku, in Chibwakata area of North Western Province. This trip, and the others that followed,
involved over 300 kilometers of travel over rough terrain. It set in motion a process that would
lead to the enrolment of thousands of her fellow tribesmen, the Lunda of Zambia, into the Faith.
[A Brief Account of the Progress of the Bahá'í Faith in Africa Since 1953 by Nancy Oloro-Robarts and Selam Ahderom p3] - 1960-00-05 —
Bahá'ís in Angola were detained and questioned by officials.
- Joaquim Sampaio was carried off in the middle of the night and was never seen again. It was presumed that he was executed or died in a prison camp.
- One family was forced to leave the country.
- The war of independence in Angola lasted from 1961 to 1974.
- 1963-00-02 —
In Angola, Antonio Francesco Ebo and seven other Bahá'ís were arrested and imprisoned in a penal colony off the coast of southern Angola.
- They remained in confinement for eight years.
- 1976-04-21 — The National Spiritual Assembly of Swaziland and Mozambique was given the added responsibility of administering the Faith in Angola and therefore became the National Spiritual Assembly of Swaziland, Mozambique, and Angola. [BN no 608 November 1981 p10]
- 1992-04-21 — The formation of the National Assembly of Angola. [CBN Jan92 p2, BINS270:4; BW92–3:119, VV120-1]
- 1993-12-24 — The first summer school of Angola was held in Luanda, attended by more than 20 Bahá'ís. [BINS309:1]
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