Levels of religious restrictions and hostilities among the world’s 25 most populous countries — where more than 5 billion of the globe’s roughly 7.5 billion people live —...
By Charles Karis
Nairobi — Seventy-three-year-old Dorcus Auma effortlessly weaves sisal fronds into a beautiful basket as she walks the tiny path that snakes up a hill. She...
In our series of letters from African journalists, novelist and writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani looks at how the latest religious tension in Nigeria is playing out in what...
Overall decline in religious restrictions and hostilities despite continued rise in religion-related terrorism
Worldwide, both government restrictions on religion and social...
Cherishing One Another, Against the Odds
Author:
Lamin Sanneh
I recently finished a study of the ummah, the faith community in Sunni Islam, and in the process was...
Kumasi, Ghana
Driving through Ghana’s Ashanti region, you quickly notice there are possibly as many churches as gas stations. Given the country’s 71% Christian population,...
Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam by Lamin Sanneh
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Over the course of the last 1400 years, Islam has grown from a small band of...