List of religions in Africa

Adiini gban sabila tingbana nyɛla multifaceted ka di nyɛ din zoogi ka di nyɛ  art, culture ni philosophy puuni. Zɔŋɔ, gbansabila tingban daadam biɛlgu nyɛla ban pan zaŋ bɛ maŋ zaŋ n-ti  Dolodolo daadiini, Musulinsi daadiini n ti pahi dagban dɔhili adiini shɛŋa din be Gbansabila tingbana ŋɔ ni.  Dolodolo daadiini ni bee Musulinsi daadiini ni,  dihi tabili zaŋ kana adiini nim ŋɔ ni ni di tuma nyɛla din duntam  syncretism zuɣu ni dihi tabili zaŋ chaŋ dagbandɔhili  adiini polo.Restless Spirits: Syncretic Religion Yolanda Pierce, Ph.D. Associate Professor of African American Religion & LiteratureDr J.O. Awolalu, Studies in Comparative Religion Vol. 10, No. 2. (Spring, 1976).

Traditional African religions


Africa nyɛla duniya yaɣi shɛli niriba ni mali dihi tabili pam zaŋ chaŋ dagbandɔhili polo.  Hali di ni kuli niŋ di ka dagban dɔhili adiini tuma nim nyɛ yaɣa pam ni tumdi shɛli ŋɔ, di bahi nyɛla din yi di ko n zaŋ ti ninvuɣu shaba bee tingban shaba.Cheikh Anta Diop The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality, Chicago, L.Hill, 1974.  Dagban dɔhili adiini nim di be Africa nyɛla ban zaa mali dihitabili zaŋ chanŋ animistic core polo ka di nyɛ din gba talahi pam zaŋ chŋ bɛ yaan nim jambu polo.

Dr J Omosade Awolalu, yɛliya ni  "olden" lala bachi ŋɔ gbunni ni di ni zaŋtum tuma luɣi shɛli ŋɔ nyɛla tuun kura din bi sabi n dɔya, ka nyɛ binshɛli bi ni zaŋdi n titr saha kam daadama,  ni bɛ zaŋ li tum tuma ʒɛmani ŋɔ  ni hali ʒɛmana din na yan kana. Bin'shɛŋa ti ni daa deegi ti yaannima sani nyɛla bɛ ni bi gbubi shɛli kamani kurumbuni ha bini,  amaa bɛ zaŋ la di mini zɔŋɔ Dina n laɣin taba m malili kuri bukaata nim zɔŋɔ ni hali ni shɛma din ka bahigu.

Di ni kuli yɛri labiri yɛri maa, Africa nyɛla tingbani din galisi pam, kalahi nyɛ tingban shɛli ban dihi tabili bɛ kali pam, ka lan mali bala pam di puuni.

West African
Lala lahabali ŋɔ nyɛla din nyɛ nolini baŋsim, din nyɛ din sabi n do salinim suhurini, bɛ zuɣu purini,  bɛ taada ni,  yɛltɔɣa ni ni bɛ daa diini nim ni zaa tuma shɛhi.Leo Frobenius on African History, Art, and Culture: An Anthology, 2007  Di ka ŋun namli bee ŋun zaŋli na kamani ; Gautama Buddha, Jesus, bee Muhammed.Bolaji Idowu African Traditional Religion: A Definition, Maryknoll, N.Y., Orbis Books (1973)  Di lan nyɛla din ka ban tuhi di tooni chandi zuɣu. J S MbitiAfrican Religions and Philosophy, African Writers Series, Heinemann [1969] (1990).   Africa dagban dohili daa diini nim maa shɛŋa n nyɛ  Serer din be  Senegal la,  Yoruba din be Nigeria la n ti pahi  Akan zuliya ban be  Ghana mini Ivory Coast la, ni Bono ban be Ghana ni ivory Coast la. Yaɣi shɛli bɛ ni boli western coast nyɛla bɛ ni lihiri ni shɛli gba nyɛla Yoruba mini Anglican adiini syncretism nima .  Adiini shɛli salo shabi bɛ ni mi ni Gbe peoples (mostly the Ewe and Fon) ban be Benin, Togo ni  Ghana nyɛla bɛ ni mi shɛli  Vodun ka di nyɛ din yina kurumbuni ha yushɛŋa ŋan daa booni kamani : Louisiana Voodoo, Haitian Vodou, Cuban Vodú, Dominican Vudú n ti pahi Brazilian Vodum la.

Waliginsim shɛŋa din be West African mini East bee  Hornn adiini ni shɛŋa nyɛla;  "supernatural" mini "natural" bee  "tangible" din ni tooi nyɛ zaɣi yini bee yim. Clergymen din be adiini nim ŋɔ ni din mali salo pam la nyɛla bɛ ni mi shɛli ni  waganga.Nicolini, Beatrice. "Spirit Possession, Islam, and European Power." Shackled Sentiments: Slaves, Spirits, and Memories in the African Diaspora (2019): 137. 

Adiini buɣi shɛli din kuli yoli n zaŋ ti  Cushitic Horners nyɛla Waaq, di ni nyɛ bɛ ni mi shɛli zɔŋɔ ni Waaqeffanna mini  Waaqism la .Aseffa, Abdi, Bula Sirika Wayessa, and Temesgen Burka. "“I have to Resemble My Ancestors through Modification of Midline Diastema”: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Dental Modification among Karrayyu Oromo, Central Ethiopia." Ethnoarchaeology 8.1 (2016): 57-68. Sasabiri ŋun yuli booni Lugira, yɛliya ni dagban dɔhili adiini shɛŋa din be Africa la nyɛla adiini shɛŋa bɛ ni tooi yɛlli ni di daa pilli la gbaŋsabila tiŋgbani. Adiini shɛŋa din pahi be Afirika nyɛla din gba daa piligi dunia yaɣa shɛŋa dabam.Lugira, Aloysius M., African Traditional Religions (New York: Chelsea House, 2009), p. 36 [in] Varghese, Roy Abraham, Christ Connection: How the World Religions Prepared the Way for the Phenomenon of Jesus, Paraclete Press (2011), p. 1935,   (Retrieved 7 May 2019)

Abrahamic religions
Gban sabila pam nyɛla ba piigi Dolodolo daa diini  bee Musulinsi daa diini. Gban sabila nyɛla ban tooi laɣindi bɛ dagban dɔhili jama mini f Abrahamic religions taba.When Africans are converted to other religions, they often mix their traditional religion with the one to which they are converted. In this way they are not losing something valuable, but are gaining something from both religious customsAlthough a large proportion of Africans have converted to Islam an Christianity, these two world religions have been assimilated into African culture, and many African Christians and Muslims maintain traditional spiritual beliefsEven in the adopted religions of Islam and Christianity, which on the surface appear to have converted millions of Africans from their traditional religions, many aspect of traditional religions are still manifestt doesn't seem to be an either-or for many people. They can describe themselves primarily as Muslim or Christian and continue to practice many of the traditions that are characteristic of African traditional religion," Luis Lugo, executive director of the Pew Forum, told AFP.Even though the two religions are monotheistic, most African Christians and Muslims convert to them and still retain some aspects of their traditional religions Abrahamic religions nyɛla din zoogi pam gban sabila tingbana ni. Di nyɛla di yaligi African dagban dohili daa diini nim ni pam amaa ka zooi ka di saɣiri tiri African kaya ni taada biɛhisi . The World Book Encyclopedia nyɛla din mali laasabu yuuni 2002 ka yɛli ni Dolodolo adiini nyɛla vaai kɔbigi puuni vaabu pihinahi ni anu gban sabila daadam biɛlim puuni, ka musulin nim gba vaai vaabu pihinahi kobigi puuni. Bɛ daa lan mali laasabu yuuni 2002 ka daa lan yɛli ni Dolodolo nim gbubila vaabu pihinahi ni anu  45% ka Musulin nim gbubi vaabu  40.6% gbansabila daadam biɛlim puuni.
 Country Population Christian Muslim Irreligion Hindu Buddhist Folk religion Other religion Jewish Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Algeria Egypt Libya Morocco Sudan Tunisia

Eastern Africa

 Country Population Christian Muslim Irreligion Hindu Buddhist Folk religion Other religion Jewish Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Burundi Comoros Djibouti Eritrea  Ethiopia KenyaN/AN/AN/AN/A Madagascar MalawiN/AN/A Mauritius Mayotte Mozambique Reunion Rwanda Seychelles Somalia  South Sudan Tanzania Uganda Zambia ZimbabweEastern Africa

Central Africa

 Country< Population Christian Muslim Irreligion Hindu Buddhist Folk religion Other religion Jewish Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Angola Cameroon Central African Republic Chad DRC Republic of the Congo Equatorial Guinea Gabon São Tome and Príncipe

Southern Africa

 Country Population Christian Muslim Irreligion Hindu Buddhist Folk religion Other religion Jewish Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Botswana Eswatini Lesotho Namibia Saint Helena South Africa

Western Africa

 Country Population Christian Muslim Irreligion Hindu Buddhist Folk religion Other religion Not Stated/Undeclared  Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Benin Burkina Faso Cape Verde Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea Bissau Ivory Coast Liberia Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Togo

Lihimi m-pahi

Major religious groups
Religion in Asia
Religion in Europe
Religion in Oceania
Religion in North America
Religion in South America

Kundivihira

Ani tooi lan Karim 
 Bongmba, Elias Kifon, ed. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions (2012) excerpt
 Engel, Elisabeth. Encountering Empire: African American Missionaries in Colonial Africa, 1900–1939 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2015). 303 pp. 
 Mbiti, John S. Introduction to African religion (2nd ed. 1991) excerpt
 Olupona, Jacob K. African Religions: A Very Short Introduction (2014) excerpt
 Parrinder, Geoffrey. African Traditional Religion. (3rd ed. London: Sheldon Press, 1974)  
 Parinder, E. Geoffrey. Africa's Three Religions. (2nd ed. London: Sheldon Press, 1976). The three religions are traditional religions (grouped), Christianity, and Islam. 
 Ray, Benjamin C. African Religions: Symbol, Ritual, and Community (2nd ed. 1999)

External links
African Beliefs 
"African Traditional Religion" in "The Story of Africa" from the BBC World Service
Text of Atoms and Ancestors, considered a classic study
Stanford Page
African Religions at Africa Missions Resource Center
Tutelary deities of the Akan people of West Africa