Mary Mabogo

Mary Mabogo
Died
Bechuanaland (Botswana)
NSA memberSouth Central Africa
1964 - ????

Mary Mabogo was an African Baháʼí who was a travel teacher and served on the National Spiritual Assembly of South Central Africa.

Biography[edit]

Mabogo was a potter who became a Baháʼí in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, in 1958 and began accompanying Audrey Robarts on teaching trips to Bechuanaland. In 1959 she went on a teaching trip to Mahalapye during the Fast alone making her the first African woman to undertake a solo teaching trip.[1]

In 1961 Mabogo was appointed to the Area Teaching Committee of Bulawayo and Bechuanaland District and served on the body until the end of the Ten Year Crusade in 1963.[2] In 1964 she was elected to the inaugural National Spiritual Assembly of South Central Africa. She ultimately pioneered to Bechuanaland and passed away there.[3]

References[edit]

  1. Heroes and Heroines of the Ten Year Crusade in Southern Africa (2003) , compiled by Edith Johnson and Lowell Johnson, p 427
  2. Heroes and Heroines of the Ten Year Crusade in Southern Africa (2003) , compiled by Edith Johnson and Lowell Johnson, p 427
  3. Baha'i News (1964). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 405, Pg(s) 10. View as PDF.

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