THE ABUJA DECLARATION OF 1989 COMMUNIQUE

THE ABUJA DECLARATION OF 1989 COMMUNIQUE: 

THE ISLAMIC INITIATIVE TO TAKEOVER AFRICA

I. INTRODUCTION

What is commonly known as the "Abuja Declaration" is officially known as "Islam in Africa Conference: Communiqué". This was a communiqué issued at the end of the Islam in Africa conference held in Abuja, Nigeria, on 24-28 November 1989. This conference, organized by the 46-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), resolved to create an organization to be known as Islam in Africa Organization to spearhead a Muslim initiative to solve the problems facing Africa. This initiative essentially calls for the Islamization of the entire continent of Africa.

II. THE OBJECTIVES OF ISLAM IN AFRICA ORGANIzATION

The following objectives are lifted directly from the Islam in Africa Organisation website - www.islaminafrica.org - literally from the horse's mouth.

• To promote the unity and solidarity of the Muslim ummah throughout Africa and the rest of the world and to support, encourage and enhance Islamic propagation and resurgence generally.
• To promote peace, harmony and human development and strive to remove all forms of discrimination, human exploitation and oppression especially in Africa and the world in general.
• To support, enhance and coordinate Da'wah work in all parts of Africa and propagate the knowledge of Islam throughout the continent.
• To promote the dissemination of the knowledge of sharia and support its application to Muslim communities in Africa.
• To strive for the evolution of the economies of the ummah in conformity with the sharia and the attainment of economic self-sufficiency and self-reliance in Africa by promoting industrialization, trade and overall economic development.
• To encourage and support human resource development programme in Africa, particularly the education and development of the Muslim youth and to ensure that women are accorded their rightful place in society as enshrined in the sharia.
• To serve as a mouthpiece for the articulation of issues of common concern to Muslim communities in Africa and the rest of the world.
• To undertake research and publications on all aspects of Islamic history and Islamic intellectual heritage in Africa.
• To undertake the translation of Islamic works into various African languages and their dissemination.
• To promote the learning of Arabic language throughout Africa.
• To promote respect and undertake measures for relief and comfort of those in distress in Africa and other parts of the world.
• To promote respect for human rights and dignity and to support, with appropriate means, all causes of general justice and freedom throughout the world.
• To cooperate with other national and international bodies to uplift human dignity and enhance human welfare in Africa and in the world in.

According to the Abuja Declaration, there are two other pertinent objectives that are excluded from the website but whose authenticity can be established from the activities of this organization and the pronouncements of leading Islamic scholars as well as the writings of the Quran. These are:

• To eradicate in all its forms and ramifications all non-Muslim religions in member nations (such religions shall include Christianity, Ahmadiyya and other tribal modes of worship unacceptable to Muslims).
• To ensure the decoration of Nigeria (24th African and 46th World member of the OIC) a Federal Sultanate at a convenient date and time from 28th March 1990, with the Sultan of Sokoto enthroned as the Sultan Supreme sovereign of Nigeria.

And this communique is intended to subdue the whole south and the middle belt with the support of the federal government.