Three of the tablets mentioned taking the Baháʼí Faith to Africa, but was delayed in being presented in the United States until 1919 — after the end of World War I and the Spanish flu.
These tablets were translated and presented by Mirza Ahmad Sohrab on April 4, 1919, and published in Star of the West magazine on December 12, 1919.
[9] One tablet says in part:[1] The intention of the teacher must be pure, his heart independent, his spirit attracted, his thought at peace, his resolution firm, his magnanimity exalted and in the love of God a shining torch. ...
Thou seest how black darkness is enshrouding all regions, how all countries are burning with the flame of dissension, and the fire of war and carnage is blazing throughout the East and the West.
Have pity ...The first specific mention of "Urundi" was from a telegram of Shoghi Effendi in May 1953, while he was head of the religion, in which he is suggesting the expanding community of the Baháʼí Faith in Uganda and other areas look at sending pioneering Bahá’í to neighboring areas like Burundi during the campaign called the Ten Year Crusade[2] during the period when Burundi was part of Ruanda-Urundi.
[17] Molisso Michel traveled through the region from Congo and was asked to speak to a significant audience in addition to a small tour of villages.
[4] In these early days converts were among the nearby Congolese who had become Baháʼís in Rwanda and Burundi who moved back to their home provinces.
[22] Hand of the Cause, the title of one serving in a position of international distinction in the religion, Enoch Olinga, represented the Universal House of Justice for the 1969 election of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of Burundi and Rwanda[5] with its seat in Bujumbura.
[27] She eventually worked as an African American in foreign policy as she was the United States Ambassador to Burundi (1989–1993) during the first Bush administration[28] but she did not participate in formal Baháʼí activities due to her responsibilities.
[33] The religion entered a new phase of activity when a message of the Universal House of Justice dated 20 October 1983 was released.
Since the genocide and war, the religion has been involved in resolving tribal tensions based on its teachings of principle of the oneness of humanity.
Regional conferences around the world were called for by the Universal House of Justice 20 October 2008 to celebrate recent achievements in grassroots community-building and to plan their next steps in organizing in their home areas.