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Christianity is the most widely practiced religions along with Islam and is the largest religion in Sub-Saharan Africa. Several syncretistic and messianic sects have formed throughout much of the continent, including the Nazareth Baptist Church in South Africa and the Aladura churches in Nigeria.
An early-20th-century Igbo medicine man in Nigeria, West Africa. Adherents of traditional religions in Africa are distributed among 43 countries and are estimated to number over 100 million. [11] [12] Christianity and Islam, having largely displaced indigenous African religions, are often adapted to African cultural contexts and belief systems.
Islam in Africa is the continent's second most widely professed faith behind Christianity. Africa was the first continent into which Islam spread from the Middle East, during the early 7th century CE. Almost one-third of the world's Muslim population resides in Africa. Muslims crossed current Djibouti and Somaliland to seek refuge in present ...
Combined green: Definition of "sub-Saharan Africa" as used in the statistics of United Nations institutions Lighter green: The Sudan, classified as a part of North Africa by the United Nations Statistics Division [2] instead of Eastern Africa, though the organization states that "the assignment of countries or areas to specific groupings is for statistical convenience and does not imply any ...
In 2010, Pew estimated that there were around 300 million Protestants in Sub Saharan Africa. [129] Other estimates range up to four hundred million. [130] [131] Protestantism is the largest Christian group in Africa, with 35.9% (more than a half) in sub-Saharan Africa. [132] Protestant have grown to 35.9% of the whole population of the ...
Malayo-Polynesian (Malagasy) Indo-European (Afrikaaner) The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each ethnicity generally having their own language (or dialect of a language) and culture. The ethnolinguistic groups include various Afroasiatic, Khoisan, Niger-Congo, and Nilo-Saharan populations.
About 15% of Muslims reside in Sub-Saharan Africa, [27] [page needed] [10] [28] and sizeable Muslim communities are also found in the Americas, Russia, China and Europe. [ 8 ] Western Europe hosts many Muslim immigrant communities where Islam is the second-largest religion after Christianity , where it represents 6% of the total population or ...
French-language map showing the major trans-Saharan trade routes (1862) Trans-Saharan trade is trade between sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa that requires travel across the Sahara. Though this trade began in prehistoric times, the peak of trade extended from the 8th century until the early 17th century CE.