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Language: en
Pages: 308
Pages: 308
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-16 - Publisher: Indiana University Press
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a global movement with more than half a million Ghanaian members, runs an extensive network of English-language schools and medi
Language: en
Pages: 238
Pages: 238
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-10-22 - Publisher: Indiana University Press
John H. Hanson's pathbreaking study revises late-nineteenth-century colonialist assumptions about a West African Muslim social movement. Using indigenous Arabic
Language: en
Pages: 280
Pages: 280
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-07-04 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
In the late seventeenth century Wala emerged as a small state in what is now northwestern Ghana. Its creation involved on the one hand warrior groups of Mande,
Language: en
Pages: 267
Pages: 267
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-03 - Publisher: Indiana University Press
As early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood the possibilities that using imported motor transport could further the social and economic
Language: en
Pages: 424
Pages: 424
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-27 - Publisher: BRILL
In this book Ousman Kobo provides a fresh understanding of the indigenous origins of Islamic reforms sympathetic to "Wahhabi" ideas in two West African countrie