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There are about 300,800 members of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, in Africa. African Friends make up around 62% of Friends internationally, the largest proportion on any one continent. Kenya has the largest number of Quakers in a single nation – about 146,300 in the year 2012[1] (according to the Friends World Committee for Consultation).

  1. ^ "Finding Quakers Around the World" (PDF). Friends World Committee for Consultation. 2012. Retrieved 2016-07-04.

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