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This is a list of all verifiable organizations that claim to be a Masonic Grand Lodge in Africa. A Masonic "Grand Lodge" (or sometimes "Grand Orient") is the governing body that supervises the individual "Lodges of Freemasons" in a particular geographical area, known as its "jurisdiction" (usually corresponding to a sovereign state or other major geopolitical unit).
The British and Dutch freemasons started to work together and became one. [8] The advocate CJ Brand (He was a grandson of one of the founders of freemasonry in South Africa), the first Mayor of Cape Town, M. van Breda and the Master of the Supreme Court, J.H. Hofmeyer, [ 9 ] were some of the prominent Grand Masters through the early years.
This is a list of all verifiable organizations that claim to be a Masonic Grand Lodge. A Masonic "Grand Lodge" (or sometimes "Grand Orient") is the governing body that supervises the individual "Lodges of Freemasons" in a particular geographical area, known as its "jurisdiction" (usually corresponding to a sovereign state or other major geopolitical unit).
The Grand Lodge of Liberia is the first independent, self–initiated Masonic lodge in Africa. [25] With 1750 members, 14 out of 19 subordinate lodges were re–activated in 1988 after the Liberian Civil War. [25] The fourth edition of the 1992 Prince Hall Masonic Directory lists 500 members from the 19 lodges before the conflict. [1]
Freemasonry in South Africa (1 C, 1 P) Freemasonry in Spain (2 C, 4 P) ... Masonic Order of Liberia; M. Freemasonry in Malta; Freemasonry in Montenegro
The anti-masonic policies began in Spain under Francisco Franco in 1936 and intensified following the Nazi rise to power. The German Enabling Act of 1933 led to the systematic closure of masonic lodges across Germany. [34] The Nazi regime targeted Freemasons as part of their broader campaign against what they termed "Judeo-masonic conspiracy."
Cannibalism also exists today in some African militias. Joshua Milton Blahyi, or General Butt Naked as he was once known, was a former warlord in Liberia during the mid '90s.
The Grand Lodge of the Republic of Liberia is a fraternal organization based on the principles of Prince Hall Freemasonry.Prior to 1980, its membership tended to consist of Americo-Liberians and it was influential within the ruling True Whig party from its founding until the coup of Samuel Doe in 1980, when much of its senior leadership was killed and the new military regime banned masonic ...