Wardah Abbas

The ‘Electronic Imam’ Who Rewrote Nigerian Islam

In the 1970s, a Nigerian radio cleric built a pipeline between northern Nigeria and Saudi Arabia, sending young men in search of a purified Islam. The returnees would go on to transform how millions practised their faith and unsettle the society around them.

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