Malawi Muslims plan Qur’an Yao translation

The Muslim community in Malawi has rolled off a project to translate the Holy Qur’an into Yao, a language spoken among 99% of Muslims in the secular but diverse southern Africa nation and in neighboring countries.

A member of a supreme Muslim body said that the Yao tribe forms the bulk of Islam in Malawi, adding that when Islam was first introduced to the country by Arab Slave traders in the 1880s, the Yao were the first tribe to receive Islam in Malawi.

Famous scholar and academician described the development as a “turning point” in the history of Islam in the country.

Malawi Muslim scholars have disclosed other plans to translate the Noble Qur’an into other major languages spoken among Malawians in order to take the message of Islam to all tribes.

Islam is the second largest religion in Malawi after Christianity. It accounts for 36% of the country’s 16 million population.