Nyang, a Gambian-Muslim scholar based in the United States, on his part observes that Islam has ‘great prospects’ in post-apartheid South Africa, ‘more so with the young Africans who are born Christian and have learned belatedly that the racists in their country have appropriated the Bible to legitimize their racial rule’. An influential contemporary Nigerian-Muslim scholar/ activist, Shehu Umar Abdullahi, writing on Abdullahi Dan Fodio, brother of Uthman Dan Fodio and chief ideologue of the nineteenth-century northern Nigerian jihad movement, declared: ‘The ideas of Shaikh ‘Abdullahi Dan-Fodio, when translated into some Nigerian languages, can be instrumental in solving chronic political instability, economic aridity, social perturbance and juridical nonsense. The African-Muslim elite in general, and a vociferous few in particular, have taken these claims to their logical conclusion, insisting that the solution to the ills of the Christian colonial and imperial legacy can be found in the Arab-Islamic dispensation.
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