Edith Senoga
Edith Senoga | |
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| Counsellor | Africa 1985 - 2000 |
Dr. Edith Senoga is a Ugandan Bahá’í who served as a Continental Counsellor for Africa.
Biography[edit]
Senoga was a Bahá’í as of the early 1970's, having been taught the Faith by Violette Nakhjavani,[1] and she was one of four Bahá’í students who represented the Faith at a Uganda National Association of Mental Health Seminar in 1972.[2] Senoga and her sister, Catherine Kabali who served as an Auxiliary Board member, lived on Kikaya Hill in Kampala near the home of Hand of the Cause Enoch Olinga and she was one of three people who visited Olinga's home and discovered that he and his family had been murdered in 1979.[3]
In 1985 the Universal House of Justice appointed Senoga to the Continental Board of Counsellors for Africa,[4] and in 1986 she was a member of the delegation which presented a copy of the Promise of World Peace to the Prime Minister of Uganda.[5] She was appointed for additional five year terms as Counsellor in 1990 and 1995 completing her service in 2000.
References[edit]
- ↑ Baha'i Journal of the UK, Vol. 18(6), 2001, p 2
- ↑ Baha'i News (1972). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 492, Pg(s) 9. View as PDF.
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1986). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 18 (1979-1983), Pg(s) 633. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (December 1985). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 657, Pg(s) 1. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1987). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 670, Pg(s) 14. View as PDF.
