Cherished Memories of Africa — Page 192
174 The ground floor was used for salat and the Amir used a small room there as his office. Their residence was on the first floor. It consisted of three small rooms with a balcony at the front. Many a time, these rooms were occupied by the families of the visiting muballighs and their own family moved to the balcony behind a curtain. That continued throughout the year because the devotee doctors, muballighs and teachers from all over the country had to come to Banjul for different purposes. She looked after all the workers like her younger brothers. She treated our children particularly with love and kindness and has maintained her relationship of a loving mother with our children till today. May Allah be with them, Amin! A Remarkable Young Man – Fazal Ahmad Majoka Fazal Ahmad Majoka Sahib came to The Gambia from Pakistan as a murabbi in 1997. An anti-Ahmadiyya campaign was launched there the same year. Consequently the jama’at’s Pakistani staff had to emigrate. Fazal Ahmad Majoka Sahib and Muhammad Tufail Ghumman were sent to Guinea-Bissau. After a short period there was an army coup in Guinea-Bissau resulting in strife and bloodshed. This made it impossible for the mission staff to stay there and they moved to the neighbouring Kolda region in Senegal. Because they had entered Senegal from Guinea-Bissau as war migrants they could not be evicted by the Senegal government. Taking advantage of that concession, we sent Fazal Ahmad Majoka Sahib to a village in the Kolda region. We rented a room in the house of a non-Ahmadi friend there. It was devoid of any basic amenity.