HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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Much of sub-Saharan Africa was Christian but later converted to Islam under military pressure.
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Animistic religion, belief in the power of natural forces personified as deities, characterized much of Africa.
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African religion prior to the arrival of the Muslims was typified by an independent form of monotheism characterized by worship in monumental temple complexes.
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Uniquely, African societies lacked any religious principles prior to the arrival of the Christians and Muslims.
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Sub-Sharan groups were influenced by Hindu beliefs brought in through east African trading ports such as Kilwa.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Christianity is the main religion in Sub-Saharan Africa. As of 2020, 62 percent of the region’s population was Christian. Muslims followed, accounting for 31.4 percent of the total population.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Traditional African religions: most religious traditions of Sub-Saharan Africa, which are basically a complex form of animism with polytheistic and shamanistic elements and ancestor worship.
Detailed explanation-4: -Three religious systems dominate the religious landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa today: African traditional religions, Christianity, and Islam.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.