1952 (In the year) 195- |
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] |
Dudley Smith Kutendere; Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania; Zomba, Malawi; Malawi |
first African Bahá’í in Tanganyika, and Central and East Africa |