The first by Muslim merchants from the adjacent Western Sudan, and the second immigarnts form Hausaland in the South Easteren part of Western Sudan.

In 1985 estimate showed that the Muslim population of Ghana rose to 15 percent, with the religion penetrating down south to the coast of Ghana where the number of conversions are continuing to increase.

A new form of the Islamic religion , the Ahmadiyya Muslim Movement was introduced in 1921 by missionanries from Pakistan. Based at Saltpond in the central region their practices differed from the original Islam, in that wherein the North Kornic private shcools were promoted, the Ahmadiyya Movement founded its own schools and colleges which catered not only for Arabic education, but a curriculum that covered many subjects in the western education system.