(DEPARTMENTS OF ARABIC & ISLAMIIC STUDIES COLLEGE OF THE HUMANITIES AL-HIKMAH UNIVERSITY, 2016) MOHAMMAD KAMEL AHMAD
Arubic language and Islamic education in West Africa is faced with different problems. During
the colonial era,insurmountuble obstacles were laid on the smooth ways of the Arabic lunguage
and the Islamic education scholarship. However, in the post colonial period. Arabic language
md Islamic education began to flourish and witness an unprecedented development, alheit at
different pace, in every country of the region. Steps needed to be taken for the sustuinability ofS
the advancement of Arabic and Islamic education in the twenty first century are explicitly
elucidated in this paper.