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where thousands of African boys and girls receive their educa- tion. Our Missions in Ghana and Sierra Leon are similarly marching forward. In both these countries we have strong and well-knit communities of African Ahmadis. Many Primary as well as Secondary schools, have been opened and many Africans have been trained as missionaries. The Mission has succeeded. remarkably well in spreading Islam in these territories and in meeting the challenge of Christianity. In appreciation of its work in Sierra Leon, the Hon’ble Chief Kande Burah, Minister for Public Colonization and Works, says: “I cannot refrain from admitting that in Sierra Leon today if there is any Muslim organisation busy in serving the country, it is only the Ahmadiyya Movement and its missionaries. And it would also be an injustice not to admit the fact that if the Ahmadi missionaries had not come to this country and defended Islam against the onslaughts of Christian Missions, hardly anything of Islam except its name would have been left in these parts by this time, and no one would have liked to associate himself with it” In Ghana Christian leaders are now in despair and they are openly admitting that the long cherished hope of a Christian victory in the continent is now proving vain. In his book ‘Christ or Muhammad, S. G. Williamson makes the following Ob- servation: “In Ashanti and the southern parts of the Gold Coast, Christian- ity at the present time holds the advantage. But in some parts of the south, particularly along the coast, the Ahmadiyya Move- ment is making great gains. The popular hope that the Gold Coast would soon become Christian is in greater danger than we think. “That there is a challenge to the Christian Church cannot be