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Date 1952-00-04, sorted by date, descending

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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]
    		•  Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania; Dudley Smith Kutendere; Malawi; Zomba, Malawi first African Bahá’í in Tanganyika, and Central and East Africa
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