Yusuf Soalih Ajura

Yusuf Soalih also called Afa Ajura, was a Ghanaian Islamic scholar, a preacher, political activist, and the founder and leader of a sect in Ghana. Afa Ajura was a proponent of Sunni Islam shunning pre-Islamic pagan practices, and whom some have referred to as a precursor to Wahhabi reformism in Ghana. He established the Anbariya [Sunni Community|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.