Crescent Bearers (1939), Lagos (“Crescent Bearers”) was founded on 11th November 1939 by a group of 16 young Muslim men whose families were indigenous to Lagos Island.
The Crescent Bearers’ founding fathers sought to promote the acquisition of western education by Muslims for collective improvement and upward social mobility in a colonial society, in which Muslims not only experienced marginalization but were also typically held up to ridicule and suffered social opprobrium for their religious beliefs and cultural attachments.