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Ghanaian religious leader
Yusuf Soalih Ajura
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Ghanaian religious leader
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Place of birth
Ejura, Ejura/Sekyedumase District, Ashanti Region, Ghana
Place of death
Tamale, Tamale Metropolitan District, Northern Region, Ghana
Age
115 years
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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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