NSA:West Central Africa

West Central Africa
National Spiritual Assembly of NSA:West Central Africa
National Spiritual Assembly of NSA:West Central Africa
Eight members of the NSA of West Central Africa, 1967
Membership
History:
 -  Established 1964 
 -  Succeeded North West Africa 
 -  Preceded Cameroon (1967)
 -  Preceded Dahomey, Togo, and Niger (1970)
 -  Preceded Nigeria (1970)
 -  Preceded Ghana (1970)
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The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of West Central Africa was a regional administrative body for the Bahá’í communities of several West African nations.

History[edit]

The National Spiritual Assembly of West Central Africa was formed in 1964 with its headquarters in Victoria, Cameroon. It administrated the Bahá’í communities of Cameroon, Spanish Guinea, the St. Thomas Islands, Fernando Po, Corisco, Nigeria, Niger, Dahomey, Togo, and Ghana.[1]

The Assembly was incorporated in 1967, and relocated its headquarters to Lagos, Nigeria, as Cameroon had established an independent Assembly,[2] however by the middle of the year a Civil War in Nigeria had made meetings of the Assembly impossible and it was replaced by an Emergency Administrative Committee appointed by the Universal House of Justice.[3]

In 1970 the Committee was succeeded by independent Assemblies in Nigeria and Ghana and a Regional Spiritual Assembly of Dahomey, Togo and Niger.

Past members[edit]

Name Served
Moses Akombi 1964 - 1967
Janet Mughrabi 1964 - 1967
Jawad Mughrabi 1964 - 1967
Johana Ngompek 1964 - 1965
Oscar Njang 1964 - 1965
Lillie Rosenberg 1964 - 1967
Solomon Tanyi Tambe 1964 - 1967
Sampson Forchak ???? - 1967
Stephen Tabe ???? - 1967
Sherman Rosenberg ???? - 1967
Elizabeth Njang 1967[4]

Past members (Emergency Administrative Committee)[edit]

Name Served
Peter Adeboje 1967 - ????
Fred Assam 1967 - ????
Samuel Lynch 1967 - ????
Duane Troxel 1967 - ????
Stephanie Troxel 1967 - ????



Notes[edit]

  1. ↑ Baha'i News (1963). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 393, Pg(s) 2. View as PDF.
  2. ↑ Baha'i News (1967). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 434, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  3. ↑ Duane Troxel, A Pioneer Remembrance of Nigeria During the Civil War, Part I: 1967-1968, Self-published, 1984, p 4
  4. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1986). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 18 (1979-1983), Pg(s) 819. View as PDF.

References[edit]

  • NSA for 1964-65 reported in Baha'i News (1965). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 409, Pg(s) 6. View as PDF.
  • NSA for 1965-66 reported in Baha'i News (1965). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 412, Pg(s) 15. View as PDF.
  • NSA for 1966-67 reported in Baha'i News (1966). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 425, Pg(s) 6. View as PDF.
  • NSA for 1966-67 reported in Baha'i News (1967). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 434, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  • Emergency Administrative Committee membership appointed 1967 reported in Duane Troxels, A Pioneer Remembrance of Nigeria During the Civil War, Part I: 1967-1968, Self-published, 1984, p 4.
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