Eric Manton and his son Terry arrived in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), the first Bahá'ís to settle in the country. They settled in the Copperbelt region from where he was able to raise a number of native believers who took the Faith to other parts of Zambia. [A Brief Account of the Bahá'í Faith in Africa Since 1953 by Nance Ororo-Robarts and Selam Ahderrom p2]
• The first local convert was Christopher Mwitumwa in 1954. [Wikipedia]

Hand of the Cause Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum and her companion, Violette Nakhjavání, arrived in Ghana, at the start of the third leg of the 'Great African Safari'. [BW15:594–607]

The itinerary was as follows:

• Aug 6 - 10, 1971, Ghana
• Aug 11 - Sept 6, 1971, Dahomey (now Benin)
• Sept 7 - Oct 4, 1971, Nigeria
• Oct 5 - Nov 2, 1971, Cameroon Republic
• By sea?
• Dec 11, 1971 - Jan 31, 1972, Zaire (now Central African Republic)
• Feb 1 - Mar 9, 1972, Zambia
• Mar 10 - 31, 1972, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) [BW15p606-607]

Hand of the Cause Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum and her companion, Violette Nakhjavání, arrived in Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe), at the start of the fourth leg of the 'Great African Safari'. This leg of the tour ended in Kenya. [BW15:594–607]

The itinerary was as follows:

• May 11 - Jun 8, 1972, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
• June 4, 1972, Zambia
• June 9 - 28, 1972, Botswana
• June 29 - July 6, 1972, Republic of South Africa
• July 7 - 11, 1972, South West Africa (Namibia)
• July 12 - 19, 1972, Republic of South Africa
• July 19 - Aug 4, 1972, Lesotho
• Aug 4 - 14, 1972, Republic of South Africa
• Aug 15 - Sept 19, 1972, Swaziland
• Sept 20 - 21, 1972, Mozambique
• Sept 22 - 23, 1972, Swaziland
• Sept 24 - 27, 1972, Republic of South Africa
• Oct 2 - 10, 1972, Kenya
• Oct 11 - Nov 2,1972, Malawi
• Nov 3 - 8, 1972, Kenya
• Nov 9 - 24, 1972, Seychelles
• Nov 25 - Dec 12, 1972, Kenya
• Dec 5 - 18, 1972, Rwanda
• Dec 13 - 14, 1972, Tanzania (And Mafia Island)
• Dec 19, 1972 - Jan 13, 1973, Zaire (now Central African Republic)
• Jan 14 - 22,1973, Rwanda
• Jan 23 - 24, 1973, Burundi
• Jan 25 - Feb 2, 1973, Tanzania (And Mafia Island)
• Feb 2 - 24, 1973, Kenya [BW15p606-607]

"The Universal House of Justice, in a letter dated 20 October 2008, announced the convocation of a series of 41 regional conferences over a four-month period. The letter – which marked the midway point of a five-year effort to expand activities at the grassroots level – indicated that the purpose of the conferences is to celebrate achievements during the first half of the Five Year Plan and to deliberate on the next phase." [Bahá'í Community News]

The Preparation for Social Action programme was implemented under the Five Year Plan.

The programme drew on the learning of three decades of experience of FUNDAEC (Fundación para la Aplicación y Enseñanza de las Ciencias), in Columbia. It was an approach to social and economic development that addressed both the material and the spiritual dimensions of human existence. The programme aimed at assisting youth to understand certain concepts, learn a range of relevant facts, and acquire certain qualities, attitudes and skills that would enable them to promote the well-being of their people in fields as diverse as health, education, the environment, secondary production and community organization.

• At the beginning of the Plan, the programme was being implemented in nine countries, Cameroon, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Uganda and Zambia and involved some 1,500 to 3,000 participants. [5YPSumPage94-95]
• For further information see video entitled 2017 Teach For All Global Conference - Grassroots Stirrings in the Preparation for Social Action Program, Colombia
• See the thesis Knowledge Sharing for Community Developement: Educational Benefits at the Community Level through Networks of Knowledge Flow and Communities of Practice by Emily Lample.
• For further information please see Uplifting Words.

They called for the establishment of a local Mashriqu'l-Adhkár in Kanchanpur, Nepal, and in Mwinilunga, Zambia. A national House of Worship is to be raised up in Toronto, Canada, in the vicinity of the long-established National Bahá'í Centre. [BWNS 1669]