Christianity in Africa
(Master, Doctorate)

Syllabus of the Online Course (Subject): Christianity in Africa (Nigeria, Congo, Ethiopia, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda).
- Christianity in Africa: 24% of all Christians in the World
- African Countries with Christian majorities
- Protestants, Orthodox, and Catholics in Africa
- The case of Ethiopia
Example of the Online Course: Christianity in Africa

African Portal - EENI Business School & HA University

African Christian Businessman.
- Isabel dos Santos (Angola)
- Mimi Alemayehou (Ethiopia)
- PhD Mike Adenuga (Nigeria)
- Orji Uzor Kalu
- Folorunsho Alakija
- Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (Nigeria)
- Cheryl Carolus
- Patrice Motsepe
- Cyril Ramaphosa (South Africa)
- Strive Masiyiwa
- Divine Ndhlukula (Zimbabwe)
Christian African personalities.
- H.E. PhD Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (Chairperson of the African Union)
- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (Former
President of Liberia and Nobel Peace Prize)
- Leopold Sédar Senghor
African Historians.
- Joseph Ki-Zerbo
- Théophile Obenga
- Elikia M'Bokolo
Description of the Online Course: Christianity in the African continent.
Sub-Saharan Africa has about 516 million Christians, which
makes it the region with the third largest number of Christians in the World.
- Together, the fifty-one countries in the region are home to nearly a quarter of the world's Christians (24%)
- In North Africa, Christianity has virtually disappeared despite being a
key area in the primitive Christianity
- The Sahel is mainly Muslim
- Together, the ten countries with the largest number of Christians in sub-Saharan Africa (Nigeria, Congo, Ethiopia, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana, Angola, Madagascar) are about one in six of the World's Christians
- The majority of Christians in Sub-Saharan Africa are Protestants (57%), including members of the African Independent Churches and Anglicans
- Orthodox Christians represent about 8% of Christians in the region
- Approximately one in three Africans (34%) are Catholics
Christian traditions in Sub-Saharan Africa (Data in thousands of people).
Protestants
Catholics
Orthodox
Others
Total |
Christian estimated population (2010)
295,510
176,040
40,120
4,790
516,470 |
% Christian Population
57.2
34.1
7.8
0.0
100 |
Nigeria is the most populous country in Sub-Saharan Africa and is home to the largest Christian Population in the region.
Nigeria has more than 80
million Christians (60 million Protestants and 20 million Catholics), who represent about half of the total population of the country.
The Muslim Population in Nigeria is almost equal to its Christian Population,
according to Pew Forum analysis, there were about 76 million Muslims in Nigeria.
Estimation of Christian Population in Africa (Data in thousands of people).
Region
Southern Africa
Sub total Southern Africa
Central Africa
Sub total Central Africa
West Africa
Sub total West Africa
East Africa
Sub total East Africa |
Country
Angola
Botswana Lesotho
Madagascar
Malawi
Mauricio Mozambique Namibia
South Africa Swaziland Zambia Zimbabwe
Burundi Cameroon
Chad
Congo
Central African Republic
Gabon
Benin
Burkina Faso
Ivory Coast Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia
Mali Niger
Nigeria
Senegal Sierra Leone
Togo
The Comoros
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Kenya Rwanda Seychelles
Somalia
Sudan
Tanzania
Uganda
Djibouti
|
% of Christians
90
72
80
41
80
32
41
90
80
86
75
75
67
40
35
78
50
75
30
10
30
9
63
8
5
40
5
5
45
6
10
29
2
50
62
80
94
93
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5
30
66
6 |
Total of Christians
9.456
1.174
1.494
7.396
9.727
396
8.015
1.828
35.342
1.009
8.446
9.560
93.845
4.268
6.552
3.439
49.587
1.900
1.042
66.789
2.238
1.392
5.190
143
13.244
757
70
1.393
614
583
57.947
667
601
1.647
85.170
13
2.281
45.000
27.064
7.892
75
n/a
2.009
11.023
17.998
28
113.317 |

African Civilisation.
❮ Samples - Christianity ❯








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