WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Although most Africans today are adherents of Christianity or Islam, African people often combine the practice of their traditional beliefs with the practice of Abrahamic religions. These two Abrahamic religions are widespread across Africa, though mostly concentrated in different areas.

Detailed explanation-2: -The numerous traditional African religions have in common the notion of a creator god, who made the world and then withdrew, remaining remote from the concerns of human life. Prayers and sacrificial offerings are usually directed toward secondary divinities, who are intermediaries between the human and sacred realms.

Detailed explanation-3: -In many of the countries of West and Central Africa, Muslims are the largest religious subgroup; they comprise almost the entire populations of Mali, Niger, and Senegal.

Detailed explanation-4: -Islam was introduced through Muslim traders along several major trade routes that connected Africa below the Sahara with the Mediterranean Middle East, such as Sijilmasa to Awdaghust and Ghadames to Gao.

Detailed explanation-5: -The largest population of Animists today is in Sub-Sahara Africa.