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African Traditional Beliefs Religions and Cultural Practices Explained before Christianity and Islam

If France colonised Burkina Faso, why isn’t it a Christian country? That question sent me digging into West African history, and what I found challenges a common assumption about colonisation and religion in Africa. Islam reached the region centuries before French rule through trade networks connected to powerful empires like Mali and Songhai. Colonisation reshaped borders, but it didn’t erase Africa’s religious history. Sometimes the real story is older than the narrative we’ve been given. #bur