Nesta Wyn Ellis 1967 she was adopted as Liberal prospective parliamentary candidate for the Folkestone and Hythe division of Kent. In 1968 she campaigned for the Liberal Party Leader to be elected by the party membership rather than just the Liberal MPs. She did not contest the Folkestone seat as she was selected as Liberal candidate for the Brighton Pavilion Division of Sussex at the Brighton Pavilion by-election, 1969. During the campaign, she called for the UK government to recognise the Republic of Biafra a secessionist state in south-eastern Nigeria that existed from 30 May 1967 to 15 January 1970. In 1969 she
Bahá'í Faith in the Democratic Republic of the Congo their own National Assemblies from 1967 though the 1990s. From January to March 1970 Hand of the Cause Rúhíyyih Khanum crossed Africa from east to west visiting many of these country's communities including the Congo, meeting with individuals and institutions both Bahá'í and civic. The first National Spiritual Assembly of Zaire (current name of the country) formed in 1970 during this trip. Rúhíyyih Khanum's second visit was in January 1972 and traveled almost 3,000 miles through central and southern Zaire by river boat and automobile. Members of the Bahá'í Faith first entered the Province of Kivu about November 1959 from