Christianity in Africa

EENI- School of International Business

Sub-subject: Christianity in Africa (Nigeria, Congo, Ethiopia, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda). Syllabus:

1. Christianity in Africa: 24% of all the Christians in the World
2. The African Countries with Christian majorities
3. Protestants, Orthodox, and Catholics in Africa
4. The case of Ethiopia

Sample of the Sub-subject: Christianity in Africa

The African Christian Businessman.

1. Isabel dos Santos (Angola)
2. Mimi Alemayehou (Ethiopia)
3. Dr Mike Adenuga (Nigeria)
4. Orji Uzor Kalu
5. Folorunsho Alakija
6. Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (Nigeria)
7. Cheryl Carolus
8. Patrice Motsepe
9. Cyril Ramaphosa (South Africa)
10. Strive Masiyiwa
11. Divine Ndhlukula (Zimbabwe)

Christian African personalities.

1. H.E. Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (Chairperson of the African Union)
2. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (President of Liberia and Nobel Peace Prize)
3. Leopold Sédar Senghor

The African Historians.

1. Joseph Ki-Zerbo
2. Théophile Obenga
3. Elikia M'Bokolo

Description of the Sub-Subject: Christianity in the African continent.

Sub-Saharan Africa has about 516 millions of Christians, which makes it the region with the third largest number of Christians in the World.

1. Together, the fifty-one countries in the region are home to nearly a quarter of the world's Christians (24%)
2. In North Africa, Christianity has virtually disappeared despite being a key area in the primitive Christianity
3. The Sahel is mainly Muslim
4. 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
5. The majority of Christians in Sub-Saharan Africa are Protestants (57%), including members of the African Independent Churches and Anglicans
6. Orthodox Christians represent about 8% of the Christians in the region
7. Approximately one in three Africans (34%) are Catholics

Christian traditions in Sub-Saharan Africa (Data in thousands of people).

Nigeria is the most populous country in Sub-Saharan Africa and is the home to the largest Christian Population in the region.

Nigeria has more than 80 millions of Christians (60 millions of Protestants and 20 millions of 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 the analysis of Pew Forum, there were about 76 million Muslims in Nigeria.

Estimation of the Christian Population in Africa (Data in thousands of people).

African Civilisation.

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Religions and International Business