Saeed Abubakr Zakaria
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Islamic scholar Saeed Abubakr Zakaria |
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| Title | Sheikh Al-Hajj Afa |
| Born | (Sa‘id) Arabic: سعيد |
| Other names | Afa Seidu |
| Nationality | Ghanaian |
| Ethnicity | Dagomba people |
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| Religion | Islam |
| Alma mater | Islamic University of Madinah |
Saeed Abubakr Zakaria (Afa Seidu) is an Islamic scholar and leader of the Anbariya Islamic Institute in Tamale, Ghana. He is spiritual leader of Anbariya Sunni Community in Ghana. He succeeded Afa Ajura, who died on December 22, 2004.
Zakaria won a scholarship to study at the Islamic University of Madinah in the 1970s. He returned to the Institute to teach after he graduated in 1985 with a BA in Islamic law and an M.A. in Islamic theology. Zakaria served in an Imamship post in Canada from 1997 until May 2007, when he returned to Ghana to head the Anbariya Islamic Institute.
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