Yusuf Soalih Ajura’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Ghanaian religious leader
Was

Religious leader

From

Ghana

Type

Religion

Gender male
Birth 1 January 1890, Ejura, Ejura/Sekyedumase District, Ashanti Region, Ghana
Death 22 December 2004, Tamale, Tamale Metropolitan District, Northern Region, Ghana

Yusuf Soalih also called Afa Ajura (1890-2004), was a Ghanaian Islamic scholar, a preacher, political activist, proponent of the Wahhabi doctrine, and the founder and leader of a sect in Ghana. He is widely considered to have been the initiator of Wahhabi reformism in Ghana. He established the Anbariyya Islamic Institute in Tamale in the 1940s. He died in Tamale on December 22, 2004. He was succeeded by Saeed Abubakr Zakaria in 2007 as leader of the Anbariyya Sunni Community.

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