ABSTRACT
During the Nation of Islam’s (NOI's) 1994 Saviour's Day celebration, held in Ghana, Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the NOI, declared the NOI was the light of the age to which Muslims internationally should look for truth and guidance. Indeed, by bringing the Saviours' Day celebration to Ghana, Farrakhan hoped to establish the NOI firmly in Ghana. The NOI's international branch emerged in Britain in the 1980s, followed by missionary activities in parts of the African diaspora. This chapter looks at the attempts at establishing the NOI in Ghana, the initial interest and state support that it generated, its subsequent fizzling out, and the factors that accounted for its inability to become an established Islamic tradition like other Islamic traditions such as the Ahmadiyya, Tijaniyya and Ahl-Sunnah. It concludes with the NOI could not have flourished in Ghana principally because of its beliefs, most of which are at variance with orthodox Islamic teachings.
