To the races and tribes inhabiting these territories
throughout the vast African Continent ‘Abdu’l-Bahá when His life was in
imminent danger, specifically referred in a Tablet, addressed by Him to the
cousin of the Báb and chief builder of the first Mashriqu’l-Adhkár
of the Bahá’í world, in which He predicts, in moving terms, the awakening of
the peoples of that dark continent and the ultimate triumph of His Father’s
Faith among its backward peoples as well as among the great masses inhabiting
China and India. (Shoghi Effendi, from a letter dated 15 June 1950 to an
individual believer; ‘Unfolding Destiny’)
