Alhaji Yusuf Soalih also called Afa Ajura (1890-2004), was a Ghanaian Islamic scholar, a preacher, political activist, proponent of the Sunni doctrine, and the founder and leader of the Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaa'a Islamic sect in Ghana. He is widely considered to have been the initiator of Wahhabi reformism in Ghana. He established the Anbariyya Islamic Institute in Tamale in the 1940s. He died in Tamale on December 22, 2004. He was succeeded by Sheikh Saeed Abubakr Zakaria in 2007 as leader of the Anbariyya Sunni Community.
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