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group. Nayyar left the colony once again in 1922 and was replaced by Al Hajj Fadl-ul-Rahman Hakim, as the first permanent missionary to the Gold Coast. After consolidating the
Ahmadiyya missions in West Africa, Nayyar returned to London where he was present when the caliph visited the city to lay the
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Freetown, Nayyar continued towards Saltpond in the Gold Coast where he arrived in March 1921. Following a lecture, the Fante community "believed there and then", following which an
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as early as 1916 after being influenced by the circulation of
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