anyika, the Gold
Coast, Kenya, Somaliland, Nyasaland, Northern Rhodesia, Libya, Algeria,
Zanzibar and Madagascar. To others who, though not following the fixed
pattern of the plan initiated for the present African campaign, have
arisen to introduce the Faith in the territories of Sierra Leone, Angola,
Mozambique and Southern Rhodesia I feel, moreover, a debt of gratitude is
due for their share in extending the range of Baha'i pioneer activity in
that continent.

AFRICAN PROJECTS TO BE LAUNCHED

The hour is indeed propitious, as the climax of the world-wide rejoicings
signalizing the Holy Year approaches, for the national spiritual
assemblies of these same communities to gird up their loins, in
collaboration with the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of
'Iraq, in a supreme effort to launch, on the morrow of this fateful
conference, that phase of the Ten-Year Crusade which, God willing, will
culminate in the introduction of our glorious Faith in all the remaining
territories of that vast continent as well as the chief neighboring
islands lying in the Indian and the Atlantic Oceans. The decade on whose
threshold they now stand must, circumstances permitting, witness:

First, the erection of three additional pillars within the confines of
that continent and its neighboring islands, designed to support, together
with no less than forty-five other national spiritual assemblies to be
established in other parts of the world, the final unit in the erection of
the Administrative Order of the Faith of Baha'u'llah, namely: The National
Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Central and East Africa, to be formed
under the aegis of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the
British Isles, with its seat in Kampala; the National Spiritual Assembly
of the Baha'is of South and West Africa, to be formed under the aegis of
the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States of
America, with its seat in Johannesburg; the National Spiritual Assembly of
the Baha'is of North West Africa, to be formed under the aegis of the
National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Egypt and Sudan, with its
seat in Tunis.

Second, the initial purchase of land for the future construction of three
Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kars, one in Cairo, one in Kampala and one in
Johannesburg, situated respectively in the north, the heart and the south
of the African continent.

Third, the opening of the following thirty-three virgin