Hazrat Sahibzada Mirza Nasir Ahmad(rta) after having been elected as Khalifatul Masih III, the head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, visited six countries of West Africa—Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, The Gambia and Sierra Leone—in 1970. During his tour he also launched the blessed Nusrat Jahan Scheme (otherwise called Africa Leap Forward) while he was in The Gambia. The object of the scheme was and is to serve African nations by the Ahmadiyya contributions to open schools and hospitals etc. On his return to Pakistan, he gave an account of this tour of his in this Friday sermon, dated June 12, 1970.

"Hadrat Sahibzada Mirza Nasir Ahmadrh after having been elected as Khalifatul Masih III, the supreme head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, visited six countries of West Africa--Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, The Gambia and Sierra Leone--in 1970 ... On his return to Pakistan, he gave an account of this tour of his, in the Friday sermon on June 12, 1970. An English translation of his address by Mr. A.G. Sufi is presented in this booklet."--Back cover.

" Sure to become] a classic in the field. Highly recommended." --Library Journal "... full of surprises and intrigues and written in a beautiful style.... a breath of fresh air on the African-Islamic-American connection." --Journal of the American Academy of Religion The involvement of black Americans with Islam reaches back to the earliest days of the African presence in North America. Part I of the book explores these roots in the Middle East, West Africa, and antebellum America. Part II tells the story of the "Prophets of the City"--the leaders of the new urban-based African American Muslim movements in the 20th century. Turner places the study of Islam in the context of the racial, ethical, and political relations that influenced the reception of successive presentations of Islam, including the West African Islam of slaves, the Ahmadiyya Movement from India, the orthodox Sunni practice of later immigrants, and the Nation of Islam. This second edition features a new introduction, which discusses developments since the earlier edition, including Islam in a post-9/11 America.