Islamic Thought in Africa: The Collected Works of Afa Ajura (1910-2004) and the Impact of Ajuraism on Northern Ghana

by M. Zakyi Ibrahim, Afa Ajura, Alhaj Yusuf Salih Ajura

The first book length-work on Afa Ajura and translation of his complete poems

This is the first English translation of and commentary on the collected poems of Alhaj Yūsuf Ṣāliḥ Ajura (1910-2004), a northern Ghanaian orthodox Islamic scholar, poet, and polemicist known as Afa Ajura, or "scholar from Ejura." The poems, all handwritten in Arabic script, mainly in the Ghanaian language of Dagbani and also Arabic,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300207115
• ISBN13: 9780300207118
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"