Lovemore Marowa
Lovemore Marowa was a Zimbabwean who served as an Auxiliary Board and National Spiritual Assembly member however he did not remain a Bahá’í.
Biography[edit]
Marowa became a Bahá’í in Salisbury (now Harare) in 1957 and in August that year the Area Teaching Committee asked him to visit Bulawayo to assist John Robarts and his family, who had recently pioneered, with teaching the Faith. He conducted a fireside at the Robarts household which resulted in a Declaration. That year he also participated in a conference held to facilitate the first meeting of the Auxiliary Board for southern Africa with Hand of the Cause Músá Banání hosting Max Seepe, a South African Bahá’í visiting Zimbabwe for the Conference.[1]
In 1958 Marowa began travel teaching across Southern Rhodesia, was appointed an Auxiliary Board member, and elected to the Local Spiritual Assembly of Highfields. He also served on the Area Teaching Committee, National Newsletter Committee, and Properties Committee for Southern Rhodesia up until 1963.[1] In 1964 he was elected to the first National Spiritual Assembly of South Central Africa.[2]
Later in life Marowa resigned from the Bahá’í community.[1]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Heroes and Heroines of the Ten Year Crusade in Southern Africa (2003) , compiled by Edith Johnson and Lowell Johnson, p 429
- ↑ Baha'i News (1964). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 405, Pg(s) 10. View as PDF.
