Contemporary writers of Ghana are loosely defined as those whose floruit is a post-World War II one. The aftermath of the war was a period of extensive Muslim migration into Ghana, especially from Nigeria. In the 1950s there was a proliferation of Muslim political organisations, inter alia, the Muslim Youth Congress, the Gold Coast Muslim Council, and the Muslim Association Party (1953-4); the Muslim Council of Ghana (1957); the Ghana Muslim Council of Chiefs (1958); and the Ghana Muslim Mission (1959). Muslims were drawn into national poli…