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The phenomenal progress of the African Campaign, alike in the teaching and administrative spheres of Baha'i activity, has been maintained, most conspicuously in the heart of that continent, as evidenced by the ever-swelling number of African converts, now numbering over seven hundred, three hundred and eighty of which have been added in the course of a single year. The number of Baha'i centers now spread over the face of this continent is a hundred and ninety-five. The number of African tribes represented in the Faith in this same continent has reached eighty-five. The African languages into which Baha'i literature has been translated now number thirty-four, whilst the number of African local spiritual assemblies has swelled to fifty. (71:1) I feel the hour is now ripe for the adoption of preliminary measures designed to pave the way for the simultaneous erection during Ridvan of 1956 of the three pillars of the future Universal House of Justice in the North, the South and the very heart of this long dormant continent. The first of these pillars will be designated the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Central and East Africa; the second the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of South and West Africa; and the third the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of North-West Africa. Responsibility for the convocation of the three epoch-making conventions, to be held in Kampala, Johannesburg and Tunis, preparatory to the emergence of these three central administrative institutions of the fast- evolving Administrative Order of the Faith of Baha'u'llah in the African continent will devolve upon the British, the United States and the Egyptian Spiritual Assemblies, respectively.
(71:2)
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