African Campaign (1950-1953)

African Campaign (1950-1953)
Epoch	First Epoch
Coordinator	Shoghi Effendi
Protagonists	British Isles, Five national communities

Divine Plan

Shoghi Effendi

First Epoch (1937-1963)

1st Seven Year Plan (1937-1944) Indian Six Year Plan (1938-1944) British Six Year Plan (1944-1950) 2nd Seven Year Plan (1946-1953) Indian 4½ Year Plan (1946-1950) Persian 45 Month Plan (1946-1950) Persian Women's Four Year Plan (1946-1950) Australian Six Year Plan (1947-1953) Canadian Five Year Plan (1948-1953) Egyptian Five Year Plan (1948-1953) German Five Year Plan (1948-1953) African Campaign (1950-1953) Iraqi Three Year Plan (1950-1953) British Two Year Plan (1951-1953) Indian Nineteen Month Plan (1951-1953) South American Two Year Plan (1951-1953) Central American One Year Plan (1952-1953) Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963) Northeast Asian Six Year Plan (1957-1963)

Universal House of Justice

Second Epoch (1964-2021)

Nine Year Plan (1964-1973) Five Year Plan (1974-1979) Seven Year Plan (1979-1986) Six Year Plan (1986-1992) Three Year Plan (1993-1996) Four Year Plan (1996-2000) Twelve Month Plan (2000-2001) Five Year Plan (2001-2006) Five Year Plan (2006-2011) Five Year Plan (2011-2016) Five Year Plan (2016-2021)

Third Epoch (2021-)

Twelve Month Plan (2021-2022) Nine Year Plan (2022-2031)

The African Campaign (1950-1953) was a project entrusted to the National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles to promote the spread of the Bahá’í Faith in Africa in co-ordination with the Bahá’í communities of Egypt, India, Iran, Sudan and the United States.

This was the first plan involving international co-operation in the Bahá’í world; as such, it laid the groundwork for subsequent international teaching plans, including the Ten Year Crusade.

Objectives

• Promote the spread of the Faith in Africa

Outcome

• Many pioneers sent to various African communities
  • Miss Claire Gung left for Tanganyika in 1950
  • Philip Hainsworth pioneered to Uganda in June 1951
  • Hasan and Isobel Sabri left for Tanganyika in July 1951
  • Ted Cardell left for Kenya in October 1951
• Expansion goals achieved by 1954:
  • 600 believers
  • 60 tribes
  • 190 localities