Mustapha Adamu Animashaun - Promoting Education

Promoting Education

Animashaun was a well read man and he wanted to improve the educational facilities available to Muslims in Lagos. From most indications he was a bibliophile, and well versed in the rudimentary of economics, Nigerian politics and Islamic studies and established a Muslim training school in Lagos. The school dealt mostly with literacy, as primary subjects where Arabic and English language. This approach to spreading education was soon followed by the Ahmadiyya movement and the Ansaruddeen society. A desired goal of his was to educate Muslim children in order to be employed as clerical workers in the Colonial Service.

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