AWQAF Africa Muslim Open College

AWQAF Africa Muslim Open College is an institution of AWQAF Africa's educational department. It was launched in London 2005 to cater for educational needs of the Africans (including the North Africans) and for people of African origin (e.g. the Caribbeans).

The Muslim Open College was founded while studying postgraduate degrees in Damascus early 1990s by founder of Awqaf Africa Sheikh Abu-Abdullah Adelabu (Ph.D. Damas), a West African Muslim scholar and cleric of Nigerian origin who is the international organization's first al Amir (i.e. President). The African academic Sheikh Dr. Adelabu serves as the Amir (i.e. President) of Awqaf Africa College, where he also lectures and supervises on dissertations and publications of his students and followers, including the African Muslim Portals such as www.esinislam.com, www.islamfrica.com, and www.islamicafrica.com. Day-to-day activities and management of the College, its lectures, seminals, and administration are run mainly by volunteers and associates of Awqaf Africa in London, United Kingdom, Damascus, Syria, Lagos, Nigeria and Cape Town, South Africa.

The Muslim Open College, like its umbrella organization Awqaf Africa, is an international organization which is incorporated in its structure with African Hajj and 'Umrah Commission (AHUC) and African Union Muslim or AUMuslims working to relieve human suffering amongst the Muslims of Africa - in particular and as a primary objective - and around the world - as necessary. It shares with Awqaf Africa the same aims and objectives such which are projected for all nations of the continent, especially, their Muslim societies where each national society effectuates programmes of Awqaf Africa. Relief, human dignity, and spiritual uplift remain main goals of the international body.