They make up a tiny fraction of the 17 million population in Senegal, a mainly Muslim country in West Africa. But their ...

For nearly two decades, Duke professor Mbaye Lo worked to bring attention to the life and writings of Omar ibn Said, a 19 th century West African Muslim scholar enslaved and brought to North Carolina, ...

JNIM, whose name means the “Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims,” seeks to incite the West African Muslim community to “remove oppression” and expel non-Muslim “occupiers.”[3] Specifically, the ...

Islam first came to West Africa as a slow and peaceful process, spread by Muslim traders and scholars. The early journeys across the Sahara were done in stages. Goods passed through chains of ...

The culmination of a yearlong process, the trio’s exit “has become effective today”, ECOWAS said. They first announced their ...

The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land, Gani Adams, on Wednesday, said the call for Sharia law in Southwest by Muslims is a plot ...

West, Yoruba nation agitators and some Muslims under the aegis of Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) traded words on the propriety ...

A coalition of 29 pan-Yoruba groups has rejected the planned introduction of Sharia law in Yoruba land, warning that its introduction cannot improve the economic, political, social, and cultural ...