First, Islam spread into the regions West of the Niger Bend (Senegambia, Mali), then into Chad region and finally into Hausaland.Īccording to some Arabic sources the first Black ruler to embrace Islam was the King of Gao who had done so by 1009. We shall also find out the activities of the Almoravids.Īfter the Berbers’ Islamisation, the religion spread into the Western Sudan from the closing decades of the tenth century. In this chapter, we shall look at the spread of Islam in West Africa as well as the effects of Islam. The first West Africans to be converted were the inhabitants of the Sahara, the Berbers, and it is generally agreed that by the second half of the tenth century, the Sahara had become Dar al-Islam that is the country of Islam. Islam has a large presence in North Africa, West Africa, the horn of Africa, the Southeast and among the minority but significant immigrant population in South Africa. It was estimated in 2002 that Muslims constitute 45% of the population of Africa. Almost one-third of the world’s Muslim population resides today in the continent. Please click this link to download the chapter.Īfrica was the first continent, that Islam spread into out of Arabia in the early seventh century.
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