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| 1952 (In the year) |
Dudley Smith Kutendere from Zomba in the south of Malawi became a Bahá’í in Dar-es-Salaam, the first African to become a Bahá’í in Tanganyika and the first in all of Central and East Africa.
Denis has the unique distinction of being the first native believer in sub-Sahara Africa to take the Faith to a new country when in 1952 he left Tanzania to return to his native Nyasaland settling in his home town of Zomba.
[A Brief Account of the Bahá'í Faith in Africa Since 1953 by Nance Ororo-Robarts and Selam Ahderrom p2] |
Dar-es-Salaam; Zomba; Nyasaland (Malawi) |
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| 1952 c. Jun |
Dudley Smith Kutendere returned to his home in Nyasaland, becoming the first Bahá’í in the country.
He taught the Bahá’í Faith to his brother, who becames the first person to accept the Faith in Nyasaland. |
Nyasaland (Malawi) |
Dudley Smith Kutendere |
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