...This chapter provides a background on the translation and commentary on the works of Alhaj Yusuf Salih Ajura or Afa Ajura, a self-professed orthodox Islamic scholar. It describes Ajuraism, which is Afa Ajura's reform-oriented educational approach. It also explains that Ajuraism is based...

...This is the first English translation of and commentary on the collected poems of Alhaj Yusuf Salih 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...